Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bainbridge, William Sims. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2010.
• Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer graphics.; Social sciences > Data processing.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computer Graphics.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computers and Society.; e-Commerce/e-business.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-825-4

Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most popular current example is World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online game with eleven million subscribers. However, oth...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Introduction
• A New World View
• Culture and Creativity: World of Warcraft Modding in China and The U.S
• The Diasporic Game Community: Trans-Ludic Cultures and Latitudinal Research Across Multiple Games and Virtual Worlds
• Science, Technology and Reality in The Matrix Online and Tabula Rasa
• Spore: Assessment of the Science in an Evolution-Oriented Game
• Medulla: A Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Framework for Research, Teaching and Learning with Virtual Worlds
• A Virtual Mars
• Opening the Metaverse
• A Typology of Ethnographic Scales for Virtual Worlds
• Massively Muliplayer Online Games as Living Laboratories: Opportunities and Pitfalls
• Examining Player Anger in World of Warcraft
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
• Virtual Doppelgangers: Psychological Effects of Avatars Who Ignore Their Owners
• Speaking in Character:Voice Communication in Virtual Worlds
• What People Talk About in Virtual Worlds
• Changing the Rules: Social Architectures in Virtual Worlds.