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Volume 3, Number 3 (2010):

The Researcher's Toolbox, Part II

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The editorial team for this issue includes:

 

Jeremiah Spence, University of Texas at Austin, 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 the academy and industry.

Peer Reviewed Research Papers

Synthesizing Presence: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Literature

Dennis Beck, Paul Fishwick, Rasha Kamhawi, Amy Jo Coffey, Julie Henderson

 

Collecting conversations: three approaches to obtaining user-to-user communications data from virtual environments

Mika Lehdonvirta, Vili Lehdonvirta, Akira Baba

 

Developing an Obesity Prevention Intervention in Virtual Worlds: The International Health Challenge in Second Life

Sameer Siddiqi, Scherezade K. Mama, Rebecca E. Lee

Research Papers

Design Principles for Doing Business on Second Life: an immersive ethnographic study

Reza Azeharie, Ravi Shankar Sharma

 

Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI

Mark W. Bell, Edward Castronova, Gert G. Wagner

 

Third Places Take First Place in Second Life: Developing a Scale to Measure the ‘Stickiness’ of Virtual World Sites.

Wade Halvorson

 

Methodology of a Novel Virtual Phenomenology Interview Technique

Ronald M. Knorr, Stephen C. Bronack, Deborah M. Switzer, Lienne F. Medford 

Research-in-brief papers

Virtual Worlds Come Of Age

Stuart Barnes

 

Summative Assessment in Second Life: A Case Study

Remy Olasoji, Stephanie Henderson-Begg

“Think Pieces”

Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games: What’s the Risk?

Benjamin Sanders, Steven Furnell, Paul Dowland, Shirley Atkinson

 

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Publication Calendar (Updates)

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