SMIT - Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication

KATLEEN GABRIËLS
Researcher
Katleen Gabriels holds masters degrees in Germanic Languages (KULeuven, 2005) and Moral Sciences (Ghent University, 2009). In 2007, she took part in the Erasmus Programme and studied at Helsinki University during one year. In 2009 Katleen graduated summa cum laude with a thesis on morality in the virtual world, more specifically on moral emotions in the three-dimensional social virtual world ‘Second Life’. Katleen joined the SMIT-team in October 2009 to work on a PhD on morality and ethics in social virtual worlds. The doctoral research project is titled "Living Virtual Lives: From Moral Practices to a Theory of Ethics in Social Virtual Worlds". "Living Virtual Lives" is an interdisciplinary study, combining a media-sociological (descriptive ethics) and philosophical study (normative ethics) of online moral practices and reflection.
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	PHD Gabriels Living Virtual Lives


	Media in tijden van medeleven: Esthetica of ethica? (2012) Living virtual lives: From moral practices to a theory of ethics in social virtual worlds. (2012) Jongeren en de VRT: clichés spuien en slikken? (2011) Beyoncé danst Rosas danst Rosas (2011) Ethics and morality in virtual space (2011) Rethinking McLuhan's 'Tribe' (2011) Second Life, Second Morality? (2011) Second Life, Second Morality? (2011) Virtuality vs. Actuality and Distance vs. Proximity: Two polarizing fields of tension (2011) ... [Another 8 publications]