Journal For Virtual Worlds Research
Issue Editors: Mark Bell, Telecommunications program, Indiana University, USA; Mia Consalvo, School of Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University, USA
This issue of JVWR explores virtual worlds as contingent spaces. We examine them for their reliance on traditional cultural norms and practices, their challenges to such elements, and how they grow and evolve relative to the daily lives of their inhabitants. In every way, virtual worlds are constituted by multiple cultures, culture that is ordinary and everyday, culture that is evolving, confusing, challenging, and possibly dangerous and exhilarating as well. The JVWR aims to lead such study and offer vigorous, sustained discussions about how to best understand what we witness both online and offline in relation to virtual worlds.
Table of Contents
Issue Editors' Corner
| Culture and virtual worlds: The not-quite-new experiences we study | |
| Mark Bell, Mia Consalvo |
| Virtual Worlds Round Table | |
| Nick Yee, Liz Losh, Sarah Robbins-Bell |
Peer Reviewed Research Papers
| Spectacular Interventions of Second Life: Goon Culture, Griefing, and Disruption in Virtual Spaces | |
| Burcu S. Bakioglu |
| Knee-High Boots and Six-Pack Abs: Autoethnographic Reflections on Gender and Technology in Second Life | |
| Delia Dumitrica, Georgia Gaden |
| Striking a Balance between Property and Personality: The Case of the Avatars | |
| Norberto Nuno Gomes de Andrade |
| On the Dark Side: Gothic Play and Performance in a Virtual World | |
| Mikael Johnson, Tanja Sihvonen |
| Analyzing Social Identity (Re) Production: Identity Liminal Events in MMORPGs | |
| Javier A Salazar |
| The Gorean Community in Second Life: Rules of Sexual Inspired Role-Play | |
| Tjarda Sixma |
| “Because it just looks cool!” - Fashion as character performance: The Case of WoW | |
| Susana Tosca, Lisbeth Klastrup |
| The Constitution of Collective Memory in Virtual Game Worlds | |
| Anthony Papargyris, Angeliki Poulymenakou |
“Think Pieces”
| Method and the Virtual: Anecdote, Analogy, Culture | |
| Tom Boellstorff |
| Artistic Expression in Second Life: What can we learn from creative pioneers of new mediums? | |
| John Lester / Pathfinder Linden |
| Culture and Practice: What We Do, Not Just Where We Are | |
| Christopher A Paul |
Assembled (rush to press papers)
| Interconnecting virtual worlds | |
| Leonel Morgado |
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