The popular TV-show crime series CSI:NY from CBS will include an investigation in Second Life in its next awaited episode, that viewers can also participate in, TechCrunch reports. I find this is a very exciting new step in the social media world, as it truly does add interactivity into a prime time TV-series.
As Hollywood, or the showbiz if you want, steps into the virtual realm of Second Life it will definitely give the virtual, other, second life of yours a very exciting and exotic opportunity to sharing in solving the mystery of this intriguing and entertaining action crime series. A two-way intergration of normally very single tracked popular tv-series will definitely cause a great deal of us previous sceptically towards Second Life and the virtual world to perhaps give it a new chance. And perhaps the actual investigation can teach you a couple things as well?
This tied in nicely with some topics from as seminar I was at today, discussing new social media trends, with several new media personalities in Norway. Amongst them Øyvind Solstad one of the guys behind NRKbeta.no talked about Second Life.
Anyway I will personally have to perhaps give Second Life a new chance, because I must admit it I think CBS has made a genius move.
Hi Stephen,
Nice meeting you today. We didn’t have time to talk much at lunch as there were at least three conversations going on at the same time at the table. :-)
I’m going to write about this at NRKbeta. Would be very interesting to stay online in Second Life at the hours after CSI is aired. Probably lots of new people logging on for the first time after that episode.
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Hey Oyvind,
Thanks for stopping by. It was good to meet you as well and catch your presentation yesterday. I am happy that the SJ seminar did focus on the newer medias yesterday, because as you said and observed too many journalists are stuck in old mindsets.
The three conversations. I just find it fascinating listening to experienced media-workers as my own experience in the field is still rather limited.