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Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual

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Editors:
  1. William Sims Bainbridge

    1. Div. Information & Intelligent, National Science Foundation, Arlington, U.S.A.

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  • Online Worlds" is a landmark publication about virtual worlds, exploring the cutting edge of social computing, and based on solid scientific research
  • It is based on solid methodological approaches including participation observation ethnography, quantitative statistical analysis, laboratory experimentation, design studies, and others
  • Virtual worlds are of increasing popular and scientific interest, and the breadth of this book will make it accessible to a wide audience

Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • William Sims Bainbridge
    Pages 1-6

  3. New World View

    • William Sims Bainbridge
    Pages 7-19

  4. Culture and Creativity: World of Warcraft Modding in China and the US

    • Yong Ming Kow, Bonnie Nardi
    Pages 21-41

  5. The Diasporic Game Community: Trans-Ludic Cultures and Latitudinal Research Across Multiple Games and Virtual Worlds

    • Celia Pearce, Artemesia
    Pages 43-56

  6. Science, Technology, and Reality in The Matrix Online and Tabula Rasa

    • William Sims Bainbridge
    Pages 57-70

  7. Spore: Assessment of the Science in an Evolution-Oriented Game

    • John Bohannon, T. Ryan Gregory, Niles Eldredge, William Sims Bainbridge
    Pages 71-85

  8. Medulla: A Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Framework for Research, Teaching, and Learning with Virtual Worlds

    • Michelle Roper Fox, Henry Kelly, Sachin Patil
    Pages 87-100

  9. A Virtual Mars

    • Richard Childers
    Pages 101-109

  10. Opening the Metaverse

    • Julian Lombardi, Marilyn Lombardi
    Pages 111-122

  11. A Typology of Ethnographic Scales for Virtual Worlds

    • Tom Boellstorff
    Pages 123-133

  12. Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Living Laboratories: Opportunities and Pitfalls

    • Nicolas Ducheneaut
    Pages 135-145

  13. Examining Player Anger in World of Warcraft

    • Jane Barnett, Mark Coulson, Nigel Foreman
    Pages 147-160

  14. Dude Looks like a Lady: Gender Swapping in an Online Game

    • Searle Huh, Dmitri Williams
    Pages 161-174

  15. Virtual Doppelgangers: Psychological Effects of Avatars Who Ignore Their Owners

    • Jeremy N. Bailenson, Kathryn Y. Segovia
    Pages 175-186

  16. Speaking in Character: Voice Communication in Virtual Worlds

    • Greg Wadley, Martin R. Gibbs
    Pages 187-200

  17. What People Talk About in Virtual Worlds

    • Mary Lou Maher
    Pages 201-212

  18. Changing the Rules: Social Architectures in Virtual Worlds

    • Nick Yee
    Pages 213-223

  19. Game-Based Virtual Worlds as Decentralized Virtual Activity Systems

    • Walt Scacchi
    Pages 225-235

  20. When Virtual Worlds Expand

    • William Sims Bainbridge
    Pages 237-251
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William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg 2008), a massively multiplayer online game with 11 million s- scribers. Some other virtual worlds, notably Second Life (Rymaszewski et al. 2007), are not games at all, but Internet-based collaboration contexts in which people can create virtual objects, simulated architecture, and working groups. Although interest in virtual worlds has been growing for at least a dozen years, only today it is possible to bring together an international team of highly acc- plished authors to examine them with both care and excitement, employing a range of theories and methodologies to discover the principles that are making virtual worlds increasingly popular and may in future establish them as a major sector of human-centered computing.

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  • Div. Information & Intelligent, National Science Foundation, Arlington, U.S.A.

    William Sims Bainbridge

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