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Virtual world avatars provide clues to how trends spread

Washington, July 3 (ANI): University of Michigan researchers in the US are analysing information regarding the virtual world Second Life avatars to study how trends or “gestures” spread across this online community.

The researchers describe gestures as code snippets that Second Life avatars must acquire in order to make motions such as dancing, waving or [...]