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Author : Matthew McCaffrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108839716
Studies the economic order that governs virtual worlds and ways individuals work together to govern social relations in the digital space.
Author : Hairston, Kimetta R.,Edmonds, Wendy M.,Clark, Shanetia P.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799875390
The treasure of the Black experience at a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) is that it offers a personal and intimate experience rooted in Black heritage that cannot be found at other institutions. On campus, face-to-face instruction and activities focused on addressing issues that plague the Black community are paramount. This provides students with small classroom environments and the personal support from administrators, faculty, and staff. In March 2020, the Black experience was interrupted when a global pandemic forced governors to declare states of emergencies and mandate stay-at-home orders. The stay-at-home orders forced universities to transition into fully remote environments. Doing so heightened an array of emotions compounded by the reality of previously recognized disparities in resources and funding amongst higher education institutions. As a result of this abrupt transformation, the HBCU experience was impacted by positive and negative implications for Black people at the campus, local, state, and national levels. The Black Experience and Navigating Higher Education Through a Virtual World explores the reality of the Black experience from various perspectives involving higher education institutions with a focus on HBCUs. The book provides an overview and analysis of a virtual experience that goes beyond the day-to-day technological implications and exposes innovative ideas and ways of navigating students and faculty through a remote world. It focuses on heightening the awareness of disparities through the Black experience in a virtual environment, provides guidance on transitioning to fully remote environments, examines leadership dynamics in virtual environments, analyzes mental health balance, and examines implications on the digital divide. Covering topics such as online course delivery, self-health, and social justice, this book is essential for graduate students, academicians, diversity officers in the academy, professors, and researchers.
Author : Khaled Elleithy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789048136605
Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Systems Engineering and Sciences. Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering includes selected papers form the conference proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS 2008) which was part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information and Systems Sciences and Engineering (CISSE 2008).
Author : Greg Lastowka
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300163162
Tens of millions of people today are living part of their life in a virtual world. In places like World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Free Realms, people are making friends, building communities, creating art, and making real money. Business is booming on the virtual frontier, as billions of dollars are paid in exchange for pixels on screens. But sometimes things go wrong. Virtual criminals defraud online communities in pursuit of real-world profits. People feel cheated when their avatars lose virtual property to wrongdoers. Increasingly, they turn to legal systems for solutions. But when your avatar has been robbed, what law is there to assist you?In Virtual Justice, Greg Lastowka illustrates the real legal dilemmas posed by virtual worlds. Presenting the most recent lawsuits and controversies, he explains how governments are responding to the chaos on the cyberspace frontier. After an engaging overview of the history and business models of today's virtual worlds, he explores how laws of property, jurisdiction, crime, and copyright are being adapted to pave the path of virtual law.Virtual worlds are becoming more important to society with each passing year. This pioneering study will be an invaluable guide to scholars of online communities for years to come.
Author : Thomas Malaby
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801457753
The past decade has seen phenomenal growth in the development and use of virtual worlds. In one of the most notable, Second Life, millions of people have created online avatars in order to play games, take classes, socialize, and conduct business transactions. Second Life offers a gathering point and the tools for people to create a new world online. Too often neglected in popular and scholarly accounts of such groundbreaking new environments is the simple truth that, of necessity, such virtual worlds emerge from physical workplaces marked by negotiation, creation, and constant change. Thomas Malaby spent a year at Linden Lab, the real-world home of Second Life, observing those who develop and profit from the sprawling, self-generating system they have created. Some of the challenges created by Second Life for its developers were of a very traditional nature, such as how to cope with a business that is growing more quickly than existing staff can handle. Others are seemingly new: How, for instance, does one regulate something that is supposed to run on its own? Is it possible simply to create a space for people to use and then not govern its use? Can one apply these same free-range/free-market principles to the office environment in which the game is produced? "Lindens"—as the Linden Lab employees call themselves—found that their efforts to prompt user behavior of one sort or another were fraught with complexities, as a number of ongoing processes collided with their own interventions. Malaby thoughtfully describes the world of Linden Lab and the challenges faced while he was conducting his in-depth ethnographic research there. He shows how the workers of a very young but quickly growing company were themselves caught up in ideas about technology, games, and organizations, and struggled to manage not only their virtual world but also themselves in a nonhierarchical fashion. In exploring the practices the Lindens employed, he questions what was at stake in their virtual world, what a game really is (and how people participate), and the role of the unexpected in a product like Second Life and an organization like Linden Lab.
Author : Richard A. Bartle
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0131018167
This text provides a comprehensive treatment of virtual world design from one of its pioneers. It covers everything from MUDs to MOOs to MMORPGs, from text-based to graphical VWs.
Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763697235
National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth — but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes. With his parents’ jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv’s miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive. And since the vuvv crave anything they deem classic Earth culture (doo-wop music, still life paintings of fruit, true love), recording 1950s-style dates for the vuvv to watch in a pay-per-minute format seems like a brilliant idea. But it’s hard for Adam and Chloe to sell true love when they hate each other more with every passing episode. Soon enough, Adam must decide how far he’s willing to go — and what he’s willing to sacrifice — to give the vuvv what they want.
Author : Benjamin Woolley
Publisher : Benjamin Woolley
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140154399
In Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality. He looks at the dramatic intellectual and cultural upheavals that gave birth to it, the hype that surrounds it, the people who have promoted it, and the dramatic implications of its development. Virtual reality is not simply a technology, it is a way of thinking created and promoted by a group of technologists and thinkers that sees itself as creating our future. Virtual Worlds reveals the politics and culture of these virtual realists, and examines whether they are creating reality, or losing their grasp of it. 12 photographs.
Author : Benjamin Woolley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123703663
Author : Prince Ami
Publisher : Enlighten89 Book Corp
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Isaiah is different from others, instead of shunning his differences he embraces them as unique. Growing up in a poverty stricken community, Isaiah is taught by his mother to value the importance of receiving an education. In Isaiah's pursuit of higher learning he'll encounter many people. Some who will make a impact for the better, while others will not have his best interest at heart. Through it all Isaiah and his crew of friends are on their on Quest to fulfil the last objective of The New Wave. Using unconventional means the trio are launched into an adventure that will take them across three continents. Several entities stand in the way of them achieving their goal, and ultimately prices will be paid. As Isaiah nears the breaking point, he begins to question the means, and only God knows how far things will go before it all falls apart. Inside this book you'll find motivation from the characters involved. Their energy and desire to achieve more, will undoubtedly motivate you to take a different look on life. Although this is a work of fiction the indept dialogue and complex issues, involved will ring bells in your mind, striking a chord, that will touch the centerpiece of your soul!
Author : Kiran Lakkaraju,Gita Sukthankar,Rolf T. Wigand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107128828
This cross-disciplinary exploration of MMOs and other complex online worlds melds work from computer science, psychology and social science.
Author : Bruce Damer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Virtual reality
ISBN : 0201696215
Author : William Sims Bainbridge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848828254
William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg 2008), a massively multiplayer online game with 11 million s- scribers. Some other virtual worlds, notably Second Life (Rymaszewski et al. 2007), are not games at all, but Internet-based collaboration contexts in which people can create virtual objects, simulated architecture, and working groups. Although interest in virtual worlds has been growing for at least a dozen years, only today it is possible to bring together an international team of highly acc- plished authors to examine them with both care and excitement, employing a range of theories and methodologies to discover the principles that are making virtual worlds increasingly popular and may in future establish them as a major sector of human-centered computing.
Author : Corinne
Publisher : McSweeney's
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781940450353
The men and women in Invisible Hands reveal the human rights abuses occurring behind the scenes of the global economy. These narrators — including phone manufacturers in China, copper miners in Zambia, garment workers in Bangladesh, and farmers around the world — reveal the secret history of the things we buy, including lives and communities devastated by low wages, environmental degradation, and political repression. Sweeping in scope and rich in detail, these stories capture the interconnectivity of all people struggling to support themselves and their families. Narrators include Kalpona, a leading Bangladeshi labor organizer who led her first strike at 15; Han, who, as a teenager, began assembling circuit boards for an international electronics company based in Seoul; Albert, a copper miner in Zambia who, during a wage protest, was shot by representatives of the Chinese-owned mining company that he worked for; and Sanjay, who grew up in the shadow of the Bhopal chemical disaster, one of the worst industrial accidents in history.
Author : Rob Shields
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781134460854
This book looks at the origins and the many contemporary meanings of the virtual. Rob Shields shows how the construction of virtual worlds has a long history. He examines the many forms of faith and hysteria that have surrounded computer technologies in recent years. Moving beyond the technologies themselves he shows how the virtual plays a role in our daily lives at every level. The virtual is also an essential concept needed to manage innovation and risk. It is real but not actual, ideal but not abstract. The virtual, he argues, has become one of the key organizing principles of contemporary society in the public realms of politics, business and consumption as well as in our private lives.