Now that we all bring the results each of us has interviewed: there are totally 5 couples, 10 copies of our questionnaire back. We read through all of them, and pick out 4 variables which we think most possibly affect the couples' attitude toward their relationships in SL: age, gender, country and educational background.
As my part, I interviewed the couple I mentioned in my SL Story. The interesting thing is: They're real couple both in real life and in SL, and their age and educational background are all the same. But related to Question 16, 17 and 20, they have totally different points of view and values. The man tends to think that real life and SL can be separated; in his answer to Question 16, he says he never considers his affections in SL as an act of adultery because "RL stays in RL and SL stays on SL. They're not the same." So he doesn't make his avatar representative of his real self in RL, either---"It's fun to play. Sometimes it's me, sometimes no." However, the woman tends to think that we should be loyal to only one relationship, either in real life or in SL; unless one's relationships in real life and SL are with the same person, or his/her affections in SL is an act of adultery. She says, "Values of a real emotion relation are important---We're not dolls. If people all deal with the two relationships simultaneously, they'll mix feelings of their bf/gf in RL and make their RL couple a mess." So she also makes her avatar as close as she is in real life because "she has nothing to hide".
I think the main variable that causes their different answers to these key questions is gender. Although their countries are different, either (the man is from France, and the woman is from USA), later we find that choosing country as one of our variables is not very appropriate; because after all, our impressions of "what people from a country should be like" are just stereotypes, there are still many people different form our impressions.
After finishing our survey, now we have to discuss how to present our final project. We decide to make a short film, in it each of us has to give a brief introduction to the couples we individually interviewed. As to the poster on SL, we distribute our works as following: Monica is in charge of the introduction and conclusion part; Judy and I will make a chart, listing the couples' names and the variables we picked out; and Jocelyn will quote from each of the interviewee's answers the most meaningful sentence.
As my part, I interviewed the couple I mentioned in my SL Story. The interesting thing is: They're real couple both in real life and in SL, and their age and educational background are all the same. But related to Question 16, 17 and 20, they have totally different points of view and values. The man tends to think that real life and SL can be separated; in his answer to Question 16, he says he never considers his affections in SL as an act of adultery because "RL stays in RL and SL stays on SL. They're not the same." So he doesn't make his avatar representative of his real self in RL, either---"It's fun to play. Sometimes it's me, sometimes no." However, the woman tends to think that we should be loyal to only one relationship, either in real life or in SL; unless one's relationships in real life and SL are with the same person, or his/her affections in SL is an act of adultery. She says, "Values of a real emotion relation are important---We're not dolls. If people all deal with the two relationships simultaneously, they'll mix feelings of their bf/gf in RL and make their RL couple a mess." So she also makes her avatar as close as she is in real life because "she has nothing to hide".
I think the main variable that causes their different answers to these key questions is gender. Although their countries are different, either (the man is from France, and the woman is from USA), later we find that choosing country as one of our variables is not very appropriate; because after all, our impressions of "what people from a country should be like" are just stereotypes, there are still many people different form our impressions.
After finishing our survey, now we have to discuss how to present our final project. We decide to make a short film, in it each of us has to give a brief introduction to the couples we individually interviewed. As to the poster on SL, we distribute our works as following: Monica is in charge of the introduction and conclusion part; Judy and I will make a chart, listing the couples' names and the variables we picked out; and Jocelyn will quote from each of the interviewee's answers the most meaningful sentence.
