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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2008): Virtual Worlds Research: Past, Present and Future
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2008): Virtual Worlds Research: Past, Present and Future
Issue Editor: Jeremiah Spence, University of Texas, USA
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the JVWR on the theme of
Published:
2008-07-01
Issue Editors' Corner
Editor
Jeremiah Spence
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Invited Articles
Cityspace, Cyberspace, and the Spatiology of Information
Michael L. Benedikt
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Another Time, Another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and Imagination
Maria Beatrice Bittarello
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Meeting in the Ether: A brief history of virtual worlds as a medium for user-created events
Bruce Damer
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The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat
Chip Morningstar, F. Randall Farmer
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Virtual communities - exchanging ideas through computer bulletin boards
Howard Rheingold
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Research Papers
Inductive Metanomics: Economic Experiments in Virtual Worlds
Stephen A Atlas
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Virtual World and Real World Permeability: Transference of Positive Benefits for Marginalized Gay and Lesbian Populations
Jonathan Cabiria
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James Elliott, S E Kruck
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Towards a Theoretically-Grounded Framework for Evaluating Immersive Business Models and Applications: Analysis of Ventures in Second Life
Henry M. Kim, Kelly Lyons, Mary Ann Cunningham
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A Typology of Virtual Worlds: Historical Overview and Future Directions
Paul R. Messinger, Eleni Stroulia, Kelly Lyons
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From a Video Game in a Virtual World to Collaborative Visual Analytic Tools
Theresa A. O, Yee-Yin Choong, John Grantham, Michael Moriarty, Wyatt Wong
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Research-in-brief papers
Avatars Are For Real: Virtual Communities and Public Spheres
Eiko Ikegami, Piet Hut
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3D3C Real Virtual Worlds Defined: The Immense Potential of Merging 3D, Community, Creation, and Commerce
Yesha Sivan
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Second Life Mixed Reality Broadcasts: A Timeline of Practical Experiments at the NASA CoLab Island
Stephanie Smith
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Monographs
How Open Source Software Will Affect Virtual Worlds
Francis X. Taney, Jr.
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Toward a Definition of
Mark W Bell
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Defining Virtual Worlds and Virtual Environments
Ralph Schroeder
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