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Volume 2, Number 4 (2009):
Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Service Delivery
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The editorial team for this issue includes: Mandy Salomon, Smart Services CRC, Australia Serge Soudoplatoff, ESCP-EAP / Hetic, France In this special issue on virtual-world goods and trade, we are pleased to present articles from a global cohort of contributors covering a wide range of issues. Some of our writers, will be well known to you as distinguished leaders in the field, but it is equally our pleasure to introduce exciting new voices. Here you will find pieces written by academics, practitioners, journalists, a documentary filmmaker and perhaps the youngest contributor to JVWR yet, who attends high school in upstate New York.
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Issue Editors' Corner
Why Virtual-World Economies Matter
Mandy Salomon, Serge SoudoplatoffInteractive Online Exhibits and Demonstrations
Rethinking Virtual Commodification, or The Virtual Kitchen Sink
Lori LandayInvited Articles
Edward Castronova
Characteristics of the Virtual Economy (after ‘State of Play VI’ Conference , 2009)
Julian DibbelAnthony Gilmore
Virtual Goods: Good for Business?
Nic MithamPeer Reviewed Research Papers
"We Will Always Be One Step Ahead of Them" A Case Study on the Economy of Cheating in MMORPGs
Stefano de Paoli, Aphra KerrStéphane Kieger
Robin Teigland
Seung-A Annie Jin, Justin Bolebruch
Research Papers
Richard HeeksEli Kosminsky
“Think Pieces”
Currencies and Capitalisms on the Internet
Minna Ruckenstein
Licensing Considerations for OpenSim-Based Virtual Worlds
Shenlei E. WinklerMonographs
Maura WelchAssembled (rush to press papers)