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2010 · West Lafayette, Indiana

Virtually Real: How Fallacies Are Constructed, Believed, and Spread on, through, and beyond the Web / Avatars as Metaphors: Using Second Life to Provide New Perspectives on Voice. / Mirrors, Masks and Other Metaphors: Constructing Avatars in Second Life

Session B4.1 · Panel · Stewart 214B

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Morgan Reitmeyer Purdue University → Purdue University West Lafayette
Presenter John O’Connor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Virtually Real: How Fallacies Are Constructed, Believed, and Spread on, through, and beyond the Web
Presenter Sharon Henriksen IUPUI School of Liberal Arts Avatars as Metaphors: Using Second Life to Provide New Perspectives on Voice.
Presenter Julia Jasken McDaniel College → McDaniel College Mirrors, Masks and Other Metaphors: Constructing Avatars in Second Life

Source

Program on the WAC Clearinghouse. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conferences.

The Thursday workshops and two featured sessions are not included. Poster presentations are one merged session.

Cite as: Computers and Writing Conference. “Virtually Real: How Fallacies Are Constructed, Believed, and Spread on, through, and beyond the Web / Avatars as Metaphors: Using Second Life to Provide New Perspectives on Voice. / Mirrors, Masks and Other Metaphors: Constructing Avatars in Second Life.” 2010 Conference Program, West Lafayette, Indiana, session B4.1. Via Computers and Writing Program Reader, November 03, 2026.