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Volume 3, Number 2 (2010):

Virtual Worlds for Kids

The editorial team for this issue includes:


Sun Sun Lim, National University of Singapore

Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver, USA

 

Virtual worlds have made notable inroads into the lives of children, affording online extensions of their offline lives. In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for understanding the space that virtual worlds occupy in children’s play and the ways in which children’s participation in them overlap with their everyday play experiences, both offline and mediated.

Issue Editors' Corner

Virtual worlds as a site of convergence for children’s play

Sun Sun Lim, Lynn Schofield Clark

Peer Reviewed Research Papers

Beyond Being There: A Grounded Investigation of the Value of Virtual Worlds for Remote Family Interaction

Lizzy Bleumers, An Jacobs

 

Virtual Epidemics as Learning Laboratories in Virtual Worlds

Yasmin B. Kafai, Nina H. Fefferman

 

Who’s Watching Your Kids? Safety and Surveillance in Virtual Worlds for Children

Eric M. Meyers, Lisa P. Nathan, Kristene Unsworth

 

Making Sense of the Virtual World for Young Children: Estonian Pre-School Teachers’ Experiences and Perceptions

Andra Siibak, Kristi Vinter

 

Terhi Tuukkanen, Ahmer Iqbal, Marja Kankaanranta

Research-in-brief papers

Diana Burley
 
Arhlene A. Flowers, Katalin Lustyik, Emese Gulyás

“Think Pieces”

Growing Up with Neopets: A Personal Case-Study

Stephanie Louise Lu

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2012 Call for Reviewers

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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