The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is an online, open access academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is a transdisciplinary journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that intersect virtual worlds research.
Announcements
Vol 1, No 1: Virtual Worlds Research: Past, Present and Future
This is the inaugural edition of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research.
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Editor's Corner
| Editor’s Introduction |
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Jeremiah Spence |
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Invited articles
| Cityspace, Cyberspace, and the Spatiology of Information |
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Michael L. Benedikt |
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| Another Time, Another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and Imagination |
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Maria Beatrice Bittarello |
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| Meeting in the Ether: A brief history of virtual worlds as a medium for user-created events |
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Bruce Damer |
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| The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat |
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Chip Morningstar, F. Randall Farmer |
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| Virtual communities - exchanging ideas through computer bulletin boards |
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Howard Rheingold |
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Research Papers
| Inductive Metanomics: Economic Experiments in Virtual Worlds |
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Stephen A Atlas |
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| Virtual World and Real World Permeability: Transference of Positive Benefits for Marginalized Gay and Lesbian Populations |
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Jonathan Cabiria |
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| Help – Somebody Robbed my Second Life Avatar! |
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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 |
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Henry M. Kim, Kelly Lyons, Mary Ann Cunningham |
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| A Typology of Virtual Worlds: Historical Overview and Future Directions |
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Paul R. Messinger, Eleni Stroulia, Kelly Lyons |
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| From a Video Game in a Virtual World to Collaborative Visual Analytic Tools |
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Theresa A. O’Connell, 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 |
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Eiko Ikegami, Piet Hut |
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| 3D3C Real Virtual Worlds Defined: The Immense Potential of Merging 3D, Community, Creation, and Commerce |
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Yesha Sivan |
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| Second Life Mixed Reality Broadcasts: A Timeline of Practical Experiments at the NASA CoLab Island |
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Stephanie Smith |
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Monographs
| How Open Source Software Will Affect Virtual Worlds |
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Francis X. Taney, Jr. |
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“Think pieces”
| Toward a Definition of “Virtual Worlds” |
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Mark W Bell |
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| Defining Virtual Worlds and Virtual Environments |
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Ralph Schroeder |
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JVWR Editorial TeamAdvisory Editors: Nancy Baym, University of Kansas; Edward Castronova, Indiana University; James Gee, Arizona State University; Ang Peng Hwa, Nanyang Technological University; Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jorge Peña, University of Texas at Austin; Ralph Schroeder, Oxford Internet Institute; Joseph Straubhaar, University of Texas at Austin; Kathleen Tyner, University of Texas at Austin; Natalie Wood, Saint Joseph’s University
Editor: Jeremiah Spence, University of Texas at Austin
Associate Editors: Mark Bell, Indiana University; Sun Sun Lim, National University of Singapore; Suely Fragoso, Universidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos / Unisinos, Brazil; Joe Sanchez, University of Texas at Austin; Amanda Salomon, Smart Internet Technology CRC / Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; Henry Segerman, University of Texas at Austin; Yesha Y. Sivan, Shenkar College & Metaverse Labs, Israel; Stephanie Smith, NASA JSC Learning Technologies; Caja Thimm, University of Bonn, Germany
Technical contributors: Tobias Bürger, Graphic & Web Design, University of Bonn; Gilok Choi, Virtual Worlds Information Guru (vwig), JVWR; Andrea Muñoz, Editorial Coordinator, JVWR; Roque Planas, Copy editor, JVWR; Josiah Spence, Graphic Designer, Ink13, http://ink13.com; Jackie Zahn, Copy editor, JVWR; Elena Zoubanova de Jesus, Public Relations Associate, JVWR
Founding contributors: Axel Bruns, Allucquere Rosanne ‘Sandy’ Stone, Joseph Lopez, Drake Wilson, Brandon Wiley
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