Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual

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 popular current example is World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online game with eleven million subscribers. However, oth...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bainbridge, William Sims (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: London : Springer London, 2010.
Σειρά:Human-Computer Interaction Series,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a New World View -- Culture and Creativity: World of Warcraft Modding in China and the US -- The Diasporic Game Community: Trans-Ludic Cultures and Latitudinal Research Across Multiple Games and Virtual Worlds -- Science, Technology, and Reality in The Matrix Online and Tabula Rasa -- Spore: Assessment of the Science in an Evolution-Oriented Game -- Medulla: A Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Framework for Research, Teaching, and Learning with Virtual Worlds -- A Virtual Mars -- Opening the Metaverse -- A Typology of Ethnographic Scales for Virtual Worlds -- Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Living Laboratories: Opportunities and Pitfalls -- Examining Player Anger in World of Warcraft -- Dude Looks like a Lady: Gender Swapping in an Online Game -- Virtual Doppelgangers: Psychological Effects of Avatars Who Ignore Their Owners -- Speaking in Character: Voice Communication in Virtual Worlds -- What People Talk About in Virtual Worlds -- Changing the Rules: Social Architectures in Virtual Worlds -- Game-Based Virtual Worlds as Decentralized Virtual Activity Systems -- When Virtual Worlds Expand -- Cooperation, Coordination, and Trust in Virtual Teams: Insights from Virtual Games -- Virtual Worlds for Virtual Organizing -- Future Evolution of Virtual Worlds as Communication Environments -- The Future of Virtual Worlds. 
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