progress report 1- question formulations and discussion

The first week, we brainstormed the topic togethere and came up with some of our questions.We choosed the topic transgenders in secondlife as our topic, and want to survey their life in sl: Is secondlife a place more open on the issue of gender than rl? Is it more comfortable or easier to be a transgender in sl?
With these assumptions, we started to discuss some questions we wanted to ask, and here is the progress.

I. Building up a topic
Our group is curious about what the transgender situation is like in SL: is it a paradise for transgender? What kinds of people in reality enjoy being transgender in SL? What can they get from SL? These series of questions aroused our interest to be engaged in a research project about transgender in SL.
Topic: We assume that SL prepares transgender in reality for a better live, so we want to find out whether it is true or not. If it is true, in what aspects?

II. First draft of the research questions:
Subtopic I: the reasons they choose to be transgender in SL
1. Do you choose to be transgender out of fun or interest?
2. Are you led by others to come here or by yourself?
3. If it is out of fun, what fun can you get from it?

Subtopic II: comparison of transgender culture in SL & RL
1. What do you think about the present transgender situations in RL?
2. What do you think about the present transgender situations in SL?
3. What are your daily activities in SL?
4. Apart from the activities here, do you take part in other activities with people who are not transgender?

Subtopic III: existing problems
1. Have you ever encountered any kind of embarrassment because of who you are now?
2. What’s your reaction towards those embarrassments?