NEW MEDIA: If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em

November 14th, 2007 by Susan


The TV drama CSI New York is an offshoot of CSI (Las Vegas) which had first spawned CSI Miami.  It’s typical in TV land to clone a success and sit on your laurels for a while.  Evidences by the rash of reality shows, Legal dramas, the cop shows such as Law and Order, and of course, the talent shows for dancing or making a complete fool of yourself. 

But this is going along the lines of all those commercials where they animate real people via software programming.  CSI has latched onto Second Life to make a virtual crime scene where you’re invited to help follow clues and discover the perpetrator. 

It’s curious to think that as we get further and further away from real human contact–via e-mail, weblogs, gaming, Peapod delivery, families moving around instead of remaining local, working from home, and going to college online–that it’s going to be hard to remember what a handshake feels like, or if people have huge eyes and round heads like their avatars.

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