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Living virtually : researching new worlds / edited by Don Heider.
- Title
- Living virtually : researching new worlds / edited by Don Heider.
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Heider, Don, 1958-
- Description
- xi, 296 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Virtual worlds are most often three dimensional locales, where people create virtual personae (called avatars) who come to play, socialize, and work. This edited collection of groundbreaking research on virtual worlds offers a wide-ranging look at the sociology, politics, and communication practices in virtual worlds from a group of scholars in the United States and abroad.
- Series Statement
- Digital formations, 1526-3169 ; v. 47
- Uniform Title
- Digital formations v. 47.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Technological developments and transitions in virtual worlds / James D. Ivory -- The sociotechnical infrastructures of virtual worlds / Marianne Ryan -- The social life of Second Life : an analysis of the social networks of a virtual world / Aleksandra K. Krotoski, Evanthia Lyons and Julie Barnett -- MMORPG worlds : on the construction of social reality in World of Warcraft / David Boyns, Sima Forghani and Elena Sosnovskaya -- When geography matters in a virtual world : in-game urban planning and its impact on the Second Life community / Nan Zheng -- Rockin' with the avatars : "live" music and the virtual spaces of Second Life / David Beer and Beverly Geesin -- Identity and reality : what does it mean to live virtually? / Don Heider -- Identity and gender in Second Life / Jaime Loke -- Virtual world economics : a case study of the economics of Arden / Edward Castronova et al. -- Real business and real competition in the unreal world / J. Sonia Huang -- Virtual worlds, real brands : a critical interrogation of commodification in Second Life / Jia Dai -- Toward a democratic theory of synthetic worlds / Peter Spangler and James Morgan -- The educational affordances of multi user virtual environments / Paul Hollins and Sarah Robbins -- Virtual journalism and Second Life / Dustin Harp.
- ISBN
- 9781433101304 (pb : alk. paper)
- 1433101300 (pb : alk. paper)
- 9781433102417 (cb : alk. paper)
- 1433102412 (cb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008015052
- OCLC
- 220101109
- SCSB-12784781
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library