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Volume 1, Number 1 (2008):
Research: Past, Present and Future
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The editorial team for this issue includes: Jeremiah Spence, University of Texas, USA Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research on the theme of “Virtual Worlds Research: Past, Present and Future”. The launch of the Journal and the publication of this first edition builds on the efforts of a large team of researchers and collaborators spread across the world. We have a fantastic collection of articles that provide the foundation for the transdisciplinary field of virtual worlds research. |
Issue Editors' Corner
Jeremiah Spence
Invited Articles
Cityspace, Cyberspace, and the Spatiology of Information
Michael L. Benedikt
Another Time, Another Space: Virtual Worlds, Myths and Imagination
Maria Beatrice Bittarello
Meeting in the Ether: A brief history of virtual worlds as a medium for user-created events
Bruce Damer
The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat
Chip Morningstar, F. Randall Farmer
Virtual communities - exchanging ideas through computer bulletin boards
Howard Rheingold
Research Papers
Inductive Metanomics: Economic Experiments in Virtual Worlds
Stephen A Atlas
Jonathan Cabiria
Help – Somebody Robbed my Second Life Avatar!
James Elliott, S E Kruck
Henry M. Kim, Kelly Lyons, Mary Ann Cunningham
A Typology of Virtual Worlds: Historical Overview and Future Directions
Paul R. Messinger, Eleni Stroulia, Kelly Lyons
From a Video Game in a Virtual World to Collaborative Visual Analytic Tools
Theresa A. O’Connell, Yee-Yin Choong, John Grantham, Michael Moriarty, Wyatt Wong
Research-in-brief papers
Avatars Are For Real: Virtual Communities and Public Spheres
Eiko Ikegami, Piet Hut
Yesha Sivan
Second Life Mixed Reality Broadcasts: A Timeline of Practical Experiments at the NASA CoLab Island
Stephanie Smith
Monographs
How Open Source Software Will Affect Virtual Worlds
Francis X. Taney, Jr.
“Think pieces”
Toward a Definition of “Virtual Worlds”
Mark W Bell
Defining Virtual Worlds and Virtual Environments
Ralph Schroeder