The making of Second Life : notes from the new world / Wagner James Au.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Au, Wagner James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Second Life (Game).

Shared virtual environments.

Physical Description:

xxii, 274 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Collins, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction : old world to new world : a brief history of the metaverse

Touching knowledge : from virtual reality to real company

Imagining the Net in 3-D : shunting the datastream into rivers and sky

The engines of creation : the alchemy of user-created content

The unwisdom of crowds : object lessons in online-world social engineering

Self-made mankind : identity and role-playing with the digital generation

Making love : romance and desire, digitized for your protection

Building walls, defending territory : border disputes and culture clashing in war's shadow

Burning down the house : democracy as a business model

Avatar as entrepreneur : from content creator to revenue generator

Investing in utopia : a rough explorer's guidefor corporations and organizations in the metaverse

Law is code : crime and punishment in the Net's 3-D future

Building a better world : research, education, and activism in an online world

Convergence : an internet-to-online world road map for the next decade.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780061353208

0061353205

OCLC:

155715254