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Volume 3, Number 1 (2010):

The Researcher's Toolbox

Cover 3(1) Toolbox issue

The editorial team for this issue includes:

 

Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine, USA

Celia Pearce, Georgia Tech University, USA

Dmitri Williams, University of Southern California, USA

Thomas Malaby, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA

Elizabeth Dean, RTI, USA

Tracy Tuten, East Carolina University, USA


This issue presents peer reviewed papers on research methodologies and case studies of how the particular methods are being developed and used in virtual worlds research both in academia and industry.

 

Editor's Note: Due to the quantity and quality of the articles submitted for this edition, there is a "The Researcher's Toolbox, Part II" issue on February 2011.

Peer Reviewed Research Papers

How to approach a many splendoured thing: Proxy Technology Assessment as a methodological praxis to study virtual experience

Lizzy Bleumers, Kris Naessens, An Jacobs

 

dint u say that: Digital Discourse, Digital Natives and Gameplay

Theresa A. O’Connell, John Grantham, Wyatt Wong, Kevin Workman, Alexander Wang

 

A Design Research Approach to Developing User Innovation Workshops in Second Life

Remko Helms, Elia Giovacchini, Robin Teigland, Thomas Kohler

 

What are users thinking in a virtual world lesson? Using stimulated recall interviews to report student cognition, and its triggers

Lyn Henderson, Michael Henderson, Scott Grant, Hui Huang

 

Applying Constant Comparative and Discourse Analyses to Virtual Worlds Research

Peter Leong, Samuel R. H. Joseph, Rachel Boulay

 

Learning spaces, tasks and metrics for effective communication in Second Life within the context of programming LEGO NXT Mindstorms™ robots: towards a framework for design and implementation.

Stewart Martin, Michael Vallance, Paul van Schaik, Charles Wiz

 

Conducting Empirical Research in 3D Virtual Worlds: Experiences from two projects in Second Life

Shailey Minocha, Minh Tran, Ahmad John Reeves

 

eLab City: A Platform for Academic Research on Virtual Worlds

Thomas P. Novak

 

Process, Paratexts, and Texts: Rhetorical Analysis and Virtual Worlds

Christopher A. Paul

 

Interviews within experimental frameworks: How to make sense of sense-making in virtual worlds

CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

 

Using Design-Based Research for Virtual Worlds Research Projects

Antonio Santos

Research Papers

The Neil A. Armstrong Library and Archives: That’s One Small Step for a Virtual World Library, One Giant Leap for Education!

Shannon Bohle

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Virtual Worlds, the IRB and a User's Bill of Rights

Jeffrey M. Stanton

 

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Volume 5, Number 1 (2012)

Theme: Assembled (2012)

Call: papers in the system

Guest Editors:

David Kurt Herold, HK Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Natalia Rybas, Indiana University East

Shailey Minocha, The Open University, UK

 

Publication: 2012 Q1

Status: Call is close - now in editing

 

Volume 5, Number 2 (2012)

Theme: Asian Perspectives

CallCFP: Asian Perspective

Guest Editors:

Kenneth Y T Lim, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Young Hoan Cho, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Michael Vallance, Future University, Hakodate, Japan

 

Publication: 2012 Q3

Status: Call done. Please Submit.

 

Volume 5, Number 3 (2012)

Theme: Managerial and Commercial Applications

Call: CFP: Managerial and Commercial Applications

Guest Editors:

Shu Schiller, Wright State University
Brian Mennecke, Iowa State University
Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

 

Publication: 2012 Q4

Status: Call done. Please Submit.

 

MCIS 2012 A Special Call

Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games

September 2012, Guimarães, Portugal

Call: CFP: Real Virtual Worlds and Serious Games

 

Volume 6, Number 1 (2013)

Theme: Assembled (2013)

Call: TBD

Guest Editors:

TBD

 

Publication: 2013 Q1

Status: Working on Call

 

Volume 6, Number 2 (2013)

Theme: Law and Virtual Worlds

Call: CFP: Law and Virtual Worlds

Guest Editors:

Melissa de Zwart, University of Adelaide, Australia
Greg Lastowka, Rutgers University, US
Dan Hunter, New York Law School, US
 

Publication: 2013 Q2

Status: Call done. Please Submit.

 

Volume 6, Number 3 (2013)

Theme: Impact (on People, Places, and Organizations)

Call: TBD

Guest Editors:

TBD

 

Publication: 2013 Q4

Status: enlisting editors