Are you there? Representation and co-presence in virtual worlds

Socioal interaction in virtual world is experienced through practices that require digital representation forms of those who participate in them. Through an ethnographic observation in the virtual environment Second Life, we would contribute to the understanding of some relationships between the resources through the users are shown to others and encourage a sense of co-presence. We identify and characterize seven categories of reiotionship between co-presence rind representation. These cotegories show us technical conditions proper to the environment. , and interaction strategies of the participants in two axes; temporary resources management (participation rates) and spatial occupied (co-presence diversified). Finally, the strategies of on co-presence enlarge the human ubiquity sense. These are core skills fur the new reticular and multi scenic social forms.