Open AccessCulture and virtual worlds: The not-quite-new experiences we study
Author(s) -
Mark W. Bell,
Mia Consalvo
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of virtual worlds research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-8477
DOI - 10.4101/jvwr.v1i3.504
Subject(s) - metaverse , subject (documents) , virtual world , discipline , computer science , sociology , internet privacy , virtual reality , world wide web , public relations , human–computer interaction , political science , social science
As a reader of this issue of JVWR, you should have an interest in virtual worlds as well as some experience with a few, even if an exact definition of what constitutes a virtual world or how to differentiate various types of virtual worlds still proves elusive to you. Popular media outlets as well as academics from multiple disciplinary homes have been rumbling about thetopic for some time now, but virtual world spaces that contain millions of people globally are just now becoming a sustained subject of the studious eye of academic research.