The Immersive Internet

1. Front Matter

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2. Postcards from the Metaverse: An Introduction to the Immersive Internet

   • Dominic Power, Robin Teigland

   Pages 1-12

3. Niggling Inequality: A Second Introduction to the Immersive Internet

   • Edward Castronova

   Pages 13-22

4. The Distributed Self: Virtual Worlds and the Future of Human Identity

   • Richard Gilbert, Andrew Forney

   Pages 23-36

5. Meta-Dreaming: Entangling the Virtual and the Physical

   • Denise Doyle

   Pages 37-48

6. Individually Social: Approaching the Merging of Virtual Worlds, the Semantic Web, and Social Networks

   • Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez

   Pages 49-64

7. Virtual Worlds as Radical Theater: Extending the Proscenium

   • Anthony M. Townsend, Brian E. Mennecke

   Pages 65-76

8. Virtual Worlds and Indigenous Narratives

   • James Barrett

   Pages 77-91

9. The Immersive Hand: Non-verbal Communication in Virtual Environments

   • Smiljana Antonijević

   Pages 92-105

10. Discovering the ‘I’ in Avatar: Performance and Self-therapy

    • Alicia B. Corts

    Pages 106-113

11. Reflections and Projections: Enabling the Social Enterprise

    • Steve Mahaley, Chuck Hamilton, Tony O’Driscoll

    Pages 114-124

12. Added Value of Teaching in a Virtual World

    • Inger-Marie Falgren Christensen, Andrew Marunchak, Cristina Stefanelli

    Pages 125-137

13. Play and Fun Politics to Increase the Pervasiveness of Social Community: The Experience of Angels 4 Travellers

    • Maria Laura Toraldo, Gianluigi Mangia, Stefano Consiglio, Riccardo Mercurio

    Pages 138-147

14. Framing Online Games Positively: Entertainment and Engagement through ‘Mindful Loss’ of Flow

    • Müberra Yüksel

    Pages 148-157

15. Inhabitants of Virtual Worlds, Players of Online Video Games — Beware!

    • Antti Ainamo, Tuukka Tammi

    Pages 158-167

16. Relationships, Community, and Networked Individuals

    • Rhonda McEwen, Barry Wellman

    Pages 168-179

17. Gemeinschaft Identity in a Gesellschaft Metaverse

    • Cynthia Calongne, Peggy Sheehy, Andrew Stricker

    Pages 180-191

18. Sorting Out the Metaverse and How the Metaverse Is Sorting Us Out

    • Isto Huvila

    Pages 192-203

19. On the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding Internet-based Generative Platforms

    • Jonny Holmström

    Pages 204-213

20. Social Norms, Regulatory Policies, and Virtual Behavior

    • Andrew Harrison, Brian E. Mennecke, William N. Dilla

    Pages 214-227

Collecting short thought pieces by some of the leading thinkers on the emerging 'Immersive Internet', Power and Teigland's book questions what a more immersive and intimate internet – based on social media, augmented reality, virtual worlds, online games, 3D internet and beyond – might mean for society and for each of us.

• communication
• Framing
• identity
• Internet
• media
• Online
• performance
• semantic web
• social network
• social networks
• society

"The Immersive Internet provides the first omnibus account of the emerging world-view of people who spend most of their quality time mediated by computer-based technologies. It should be taken seriously by anyone trying to design a liberal arts curriculum for Humanity 2.0." Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK

• Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

  Robin Teigland

• Uppsala University, Sweden

  Dominic Power

Antti Ainamo, Aalto University, Finland Smiljana Antonijevi?, Roskilde University, Denmark James Barrett, Umeå University, Sweden Tom Boellstorff, University of California, USA Cynthia Calongne, Colorado Technical University, USA Edward Castronova, Indiana University, USA Stefano Consiglio, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Alicia B. Corts, University of Georgia, USA William N. Dilla, Iowa State University, USA Denise Doyle, University of Wolverhampton, UK Inger-Marie Falgren Christensen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Andrew F. Forney, University of California, USA Richard L. Gilbert, Loyola Marymount University, California Chuck Hamilton, IBM Centre for Advanced Learning, Vancouver Andrew Harrison, Iowa State University, USA Jonny Holmström, Umeå University, Sweden Isto Huvila, Uppsala University, Sweden Steve Mahaley, Duke Corporate Education, USA Gianluigi Mangia, University of Naples, Italy Andrew Marunchak, University of Hertfordshire, UK Rhonda McEwen, University of Toronto, Canada Brian E. Mennecke, Iowa State University, USA Riccardo Mercurio, of Napoli Federico II, Italy Tony O'Driscoll, Duke Corporate Education, USA Rick Oller, Artist and Software Designer, USA Dominic Power, Uppsala University, Sweden Peggy Sheehy, Suffern Middle School, USA Cristina Stefanelli, University Iuav of Venice, Italy Andrew Stricker, The Air University, USA Tuukka Tammi, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL),Finland Robin Teigland, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez, University of Western Ontario, Canada Maria Laura Toraldo, University Federico II of Naples, Italy Anthony M. Townsend, Iowa State University, USA Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada Müberra Yüksel, Kadir Has University, Turkey Matthew Zook, University of Kentucky, USA

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