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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| 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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