The Deep Dive
The Deep Dive is a series of short podcasts exploring the undergraduate university module “Virtual Environments: Is one life enough”. The class, developed by the Second Life academic Acuppa Tae (John O’Connor) in 2009, has been offered continuously since then by Technological University Dublin in Ireland; and is delivered entirely online in this virtual world. Each episode concentrates on a different theme from the module and considers the impact on students. The podcast is a conversation generated by Google NotebookLM based on the website www.virtualenvironmentsmodule.com. It is produced by Acuppa Tae in 2025.
The Deep Dive
Metaliteracy and Digital Citizenship
In this seventh episode, we reflect on the evolution of the ‘Metaliteracy and Digital Citizenship’ class over the years. Our guest speaker, Dr. Valerie Hill – known in Second Life as Valibrarian Gregg and author of Metamodernism and Changing Literacy: Emerging Research and Opportunities (2020) – examines how the post-Gutenberg Parenthesis reality is shaping contemporary life and education. The conversation, generated by Google NotebookLM from content on www.virtualenvironmentsmodule.com, is produced by Acuppa Tae in 2025.