Following the widely acclaimed three-day Digital Lives Research Conference in February, we have had - over the subsequent weeks - a period of consolidation for the research and writing. A key milestone which is looming fast is a report outlining the achievements of the project. It is due in the first week of June; and we have been gathering the necessary project statistics to send to the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
During the remainder of June we shall: (i) bring together the various strands of the project in the form of a final synthesis; (ii) enhance the website, making available some of the project files; and (iii) with publications and various pieces of research writing coming to fruition highlight findings and discuss more widely the possible implications of the research.
A quick overview of the outputs of the project:
• over the course of the project to date more than 20 presentations have been given by team members at conferences and seminars on three continents;
• seven quality papers or articles (including essays) have been published or are in press or are in the final stages of preparation: this includes two peer reviewed papers that have been accepted and one that has been submitted (the original research proposal commits us to only one peer reviewed paper); we expect to produce at least five more quality papers;
• the First Digital Lives Research Conference entailed lectures from more than 45 eminent speakers, with talks additionally being broadcast to (and from) the virtual world Second Life;
• we intend to enrich the website, with the uploading of files being conducted in phases over the weeks - ultimately there will be more than 60 files made available for download including videocasts, audio interviews, transcripts, presentation slides and papers;
• project synthesis report.
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