The Digital Cultural Identity on the Space Drawed in Virtual Games and Representatıve

Abstract

The digital culture created in the virtual space provides a more liberal and open environment for the people, with fewer restrictions from real life. The current research on virtual reality self-expression has mainly been discovered as an independent aspect of the real self. The chapter also analyzes the use and perceptions of virtual users in the virtual world by focusing on the construct that creates different virtual cultural experiences. For this purpose, the “Second Life” game, which provides a three-dimensional and online virtual environment modeled by the real world, is taken as an example. In the survey, we interviewed 10 people from Second Life to find answers to our questions. As a result of their work, Second Life plays a vital digital life in a dynamic digital culture that is different from their real lives in response to the question of how they build a world with communication, culture, identity and lifestyles.

Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

“…Since the emergence of virtual spaces, studies of their effects on self-identity have suggested many theoretical frameworks [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] to understand how these spaces can shape our experiences [8][9][10] and self-representations [11][12][13][14]. As one of the most sophisticated mediums for virtual experiences, virtual reality (VR) [15] has been analyzed in studies that see multiple effects on the self and the views people hold toward reality [16][17][18].…”