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I have just started to record my Wii ethnography in a blog and would appreciate any comments or suggestions. It is still in its early stages and I am having a few problems digitsing the footage that I intend to post but hopefully these technical issues will be sorted by the weekend. Here is the URL:

http://y-ope.blogspot.com/

I am currenlty preparing a post that focuses on the relationship between Mii avatars and their creators and will support this using some recordings of my girlfriend and I creating our Miis for the first time.

I found some work completed by Robbie Cooper that investigates avatars and their creators, he photographed game players and contrasted them with the avatars that they had created:

http://www.confundo.net/AlterEgo/index.html

http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/alterego_4620.jsp

There was recently a documentary on BBC2, although I think it was originally aired on BBC4, that tackles the relationship between real and virtual worlds. It is on YouTube (in many pieces of course!) but has expired on iPlayer already. Here is the first part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PniWHuv9Xko