Introduction / William Sims Bainbridge1: |
New World View / 2: |
Culture and Creativity: World of Warcraft Modding in China and the US / Yong Ming Kow ; Bonnie Nardi3: |
The Diasporic Game Community: Trans-Ludic Cultures and Latitudinal Research Across Multiple Games and Virtual Worlds / Celia Pearce ; Artemesia4: |
Science, Technology, and Reality in The Matrix Online and Tabula Rasa / 5: |
Spore: Assessment of the Science in an Evolution-Oriented Game / John Bohannon ; T. Ryan Gregory ; Niles Eldredge6: |
Medulla: A Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Framework for Research, Teaching and Learning with Virtual Worlds / Michelle Roper Fox ; Henry Kelly ; Sachin Patil7: |
A Virtual Mars / Richard Childers8: |
Opening the Metaverse / Julian Lombardi ; Marilyn Lombardi9: |
A Typology of Ethnographic Scales for Virtual Worlds / Tom Boellstorff10: |
Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Living Laboratories: Opportunities and Pitfalls / Nicolas Ducheneaut11: |
Examining Player Anger in World of Warcraft / Jane Barnett ; Mark Coulson ; Nigel Foreman12: |
Dude Looks like a Lady: Gender Swapping in an Online Game / Searle Huh ; Dmitri Williams13: |
Virtual Doppelgangers: Psychological Effects of Avatars Who Ignore Their Owners / Jeremy N. Bailenson ; Kathryn Y. Segovia14: |
Speaking in Character: Voice Communication in Virtual Worlds / Greg Wadley ; Martin R. Gibbs15: |
What People Talk About in Virtual Worlds / Mary Lou Maher16: |
Changing the Rules: Social Architectures in Virtual Worlds / Nick Yee17: |
Game-Based Virtual Worlds as Decentralized Virtual Activity Systems / Walt Scacchi18: |
When Virtual Worlds Expand / 19: |
Cooperation, Coordination, and Trust in Virtual Teams: Insights from Virtual Games / M. Audrey Korsgaard ; Arnold Picot ; Roll T. Wigand ; Isabelle M. Welpe ; Jakob J. Assmann20: |
Virtual Worlds for Virtual Organizing / Diana Rhoten ; Wayne Lutters21: |
Future Evolution of Virtual Worlds as Communication Environments / Giulio Prisco22: |
The Future of Virtual Worlds / Henry Lowood23: |
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Index |
Introduction / William Sims Bainbridge1: |
New World View / 2: |
Culture and Creativity: World of Warcraft Modding in China and the US / Yong Ming Kow ; Bonnie Nardi3: |