Tag Archive for 'cyberspace'

The Danger of Meat Sounds

Published
by
Jason C. Romero
on December 23, 2008
in Footnotes
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This article jokes about how voice chat is ruining cybersex on PlayStation Home. Reminds me of an outcry a while back by transgendered folk in Second Life. Second Life was adding voice chat to the game, and transgendered folk were against it, because the inclusion of voice chat would destroy their ability to pass for the opposite sex. This points to the fickle and porous boundary between cyberspace and meatspace, which Boellstorff treats in his book, Coming of Age in Second Life.