Culture and virtual worlds: The not-quite-new experiences we study

Authors

  • Mark Bell
  • Mia Consalvo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v1i3.504

Abstract

As a reader of this issue of JVWR, you should have an interest in virtual worlds as well as some experience with a few, even if an exact definition of what constitutes a virtual world or how to differentiate various types of virtual worlds still proves elusive to you. Popular media outlets as well as academics from multiple disciplinary homes have been rumbling about the
topic for some time now, but virtual world spaces that contain millions of people globally are just now becoming a sustained subject of the studious eye of academic research.

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Published

2009-02-04

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Issue Editors' Corner