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Title:

Living virtually : researching new worlds / edited by Don Heider.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xi, 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Entertainment computing.
Shared virtual environments.

Other Authors:

Heider, Don, 1958-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The educational affordances of multi user virtual environments / Dustin Harp. 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.

Series:

Digital formations, 1526-3169 ; v. 47

ISBN:

1433102412 (cb : alk. paper)
9781433102417 (cb : alk. paper)
1433101300 (pb : alk. paper)
9781433101304 (pb : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)220101109

LCCN:

2008015052

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)