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The Second Life Herald : the virtual tabloid that witnessed the dawn of the metaverse / Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace.
Van Pelt Library GV1469.25.S425 L83 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ludlow, Peter, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Second Life (Game).
- Avatars (Virtual reality).
- Tabloid newspapers--Fiction--Computer programs.
- Tabloid newspapers.
- Shared virtual environments.
- Internet.
- Computer programs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- How a virtual journalist in the virtual world of online gaming landed on the real-world front page of the New York Times and how his virtual newspaper chronicled the emergence of the next generation of the World Wide Web.
- Contents:
- The death of Urizenus
- Inside the virtual world
- Slinging bolts at the robot factory
- A day in the life of a techno-pagan newsroom
- Dollars and cyberspace
- The case of the broken jaw
- Crossing the line: scamming, griefing, and real-world crime
- Down the rabbit hole
- "Cyber me, baby!": sex, love, and software in the virtual world
- Murdered!
- Behind the pixel curtain
- Taking it to the virtual streets
- Into the code: exploits, mods, and hacks
- The resurrection of Urizenus Sklar
- The power of the virtual press
- Ruling the metaverse
- The day the grid disappeared
- The metaverse is born.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-295).
- ISBN:
- 9780262122948
- 0262122944
- OCLC:
- 83607909
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