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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