Creativity and New Media

For this assignment I went and downloaded second life and created an avatar. This fosters creativity because I wanted to create something weird because its a game and I can do anything I want. My avatar on a horse is a start. Something similar to second life, Nintendo just released a game calling Animal Crossing its similar to second life as it is used as a way to escape the real world. It's just more updated and more fun in my opinion to second life.

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