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Volume 4, Number 1 (2011):

Metaverse Assembled 2.0

Cover Metavers 2.0 Assembled

The editorial team for this issue includes: 

 

Kathy Keeling, University of Manchester, UK

Nadia Papamichail, University of Manchester, UK

Debbie Keeling, University of Manchester, UK

Enchi (Katherine) Chang, University of Manchester, UK

 

This issue includes articles from the SLACTIONS 2010 Conference organized by Kathy Keeling and her colleagues at the University of Manchester.

 

The issue also marks the Journal's move to a new website, it is a minor visual change, but major infrastructure change that will take us forward over the next couple of years.

 

Dr.Yesha Y. Sivan

Managing Editor

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

 

Research Papers

Students’ Attitudes in a Virtual Environment (SecondLife)

Amal Alrayes, Alistair Sutcliffe

 

Procedural Modeling for Realistic Virtual Worlds Development

Pedro Brandão Silva, António Coelho

 

Journalism in Virtual Worlds

Ricardo Cruz, Ricardo Fernandes

 

The P.R.O.S.E. (Psychological Research on Synthetic Environments) Project: Conducting In-World Psychological Research on 3D Virtual Worlds

Richard L Gilbert

 

Actual Self vs. Avatar Self: The Effect of Online Social Situation on Self-Expression

Yongjun Sung, Jang Ho Moon, mihyun Kang, Jhih-Syuan Lin

 

Puzzles as a Creative Form of Play in Metaverse

Cristiano Natal Tonéis

Research-in-brief papers

Margaret A. Nosek, Susan Robinson Whelen, Rosemary B. Hughes, Erin Porcher, Giselle Davidson, Thomas M. Nosek

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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