Wenn wir als außenstehende Beobachter*innen Diskurse über Begrifflichkeiten verfolgen, stellen wir zusammenfassend fest, dass das Ringen um eine Erklärung hinsichtlich eines Begriffs erfolglos bleibt. Es zeigt im wesentlichen verschiedene Bedeutungszuweisungen von Menschen, Geisteswissenschaftlern mit ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf bestimmte Termini. Das überrascht nicht, denn die verinselten Gehirne von menschlichen Beobachtern können ja nichts anderes wahrnehmen und beschreiben als das, was sie aufgrund ihrer Sozialisation und Kulturalisierung verinnerlicht haben und sei es mit noch so ausgeprägter, im Wissenschaftsbetrieb erworbener Fähigkeit zu mentaler Distanzierung. Letztlich geht es dann doch wieder um Machtgefüge, einen mehr oder minder sportlich fairen Wettkampf darum, wessen Bedeutungszuschreibung das Zeug hat, sich durchzusetzen. Unternimmt man das mentale Experiment, Machtdominanz wegzudenken, lässt sich eigentlich nur folgern, dass eine Annäherung an einen Begriff aus der Summe der diskursiv motivierten Einzelperspektiven bestehen könnte, die sich mehr oder minder unscharf und in unendlicher Annäherung auf ihn zubewegen.
Music is the human ability to charge sound waves with meaning, to shape them as carriers of meaning, to use them, and to ascribe to them concreteness of identity and cultural commitment. It is the task of music research to observe sonic carriers of meaning in their cultural context, to describe them and, if necessary, to offer didactic mediation designs on the basis of empathetic experience orientation.
When we, as outside observers, follow discourses on terminology, we notice in summary that the struggle for an explanation regarding a term remains unsuccessful. It essentially shows different assignments of meaning by people, humanities scholars with very different perspectives on certain terms. This is not surprising, because the insular brains of human observers cannot perceive and describe anything other than what they have internalized due to their socialization and culturalization, and be it with even the most pronounced ability for mental distancing acquired in the academic field. Ultimately, it is again a matter of power structures, a more or less sportingly fair competition about whose attribution of meaning has what it takes to prevail. If one undertakes the mental experiment of thinking away power dominance, one can actually only conclude that an approach to a concept could consist of the sum of discursively motivated individual perspectives that move toward it in a more or less blurred and infinite approximation.
example of a book exclusively published in Second Life, mainly also to learn the technique of eBook-publishing inworld, was a introduction on how to build a drum in a virtual world. It is a step-by-step-guide consisting of inworld-snaps and was produced with the THINC-system. The layout was created according to RL-book-layouts and it would be possible to produce a Real Life-version immediately. So Second Life book-production can be used to get a preview on how a book would look like in Real Life.
example shows the children book “The Polar Bear and the Christmas Star”. It is a co-production of Asmita Duranjaya, Juanita Deharo and Jon Haskell in 2008. Juanita had built a snow world in Second Life and had enhanced it with the sculpt animals of Jon Haskell. Asmita went with her inworld camera through this installation, creating a story and taking snaps according to the chapters of her story. The result was after a processing the pictures in a graphic software and creating collages a publication in Real Life, first as a German version then as a bi-lingual version German/English. The booklet was enhanced with a CD-ROM containing games, puzzles etc. A new format was founded with this combination, which the company called pocket book because of the size of 14x14 cm. After producing the book there was also a Real Life exchange between Germany and Australia and Juanita Deharo, who is mainly an art-book artist got a nomination with this book in an art contest in Australia. The same book was produced in Second Life with the Intelli-Book-system. It has the same features like the RL-book and the multimedia-content of the CD-ROM can be found on a webpage. The Intelli-Book-system provides a button to open a webpage; the url is added as a notecard.
