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Process, Paratexts, and Texts: Rhetorical Analysis and Virtual Worlds
No full textThis essay addresses how rhetorical analysis can be applied to the study of virtual worlds
Implications for Virtual Worlds: A Comparative Study of United Kingdom, United States and Australia on Network Readiness, Government Investment and Cyber-security.
No full textUniversities and Colleges are utilizing virtual worlds such as Secondlife in increasing numbers worldwide. Virtual Worlds also contribute to access to knowledge and the economic development of countries. The capacity for continued utilization and development of virtual worlds is influenced by government policy and investment
Born Virtuals and Avapreneurship: A case study of achieving successful outcomes in Peace Train
No full textBorrowing from the international entrepreneurship business literature that uses the ter
Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI
No full textChanges in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research
Conducting Empirical Research in 3D Virtual Worlds: Experiences from two projects in Second Life
No full textAt The Open University in the UK, we have conducted empirical qualitative research in Second Life, a 3D virtual world. The first project is in the education domain in which we are investigating the designs of learning spaces in Second Life, while the second project is related to shopping and consumer behaviour of users in Second Life. In this paper, we discuss our experiences of conducting empirical research in 3D virtual worlds with a specific focus on the following aspects: ethical norms, real-world and virtual identities, privacy of the participants, communication modalities (voice, text and use of gestures), logistics of conducting user-based studies, and skills and training needs of researchers. Although our experiences are based on conducting empirical research in Second Life, we hope that our experiences and discussions in this paper will also be useful for researchers who aim to conduct research in avatar-based 3D virtual worlds other than Second Life
Interviews within experimental frameworks: How to make sense of sense-making in virtual worlds
No full textAs virtual worlds become increasingly utilized for purposes of entertainment, information and retail, how people understand, think, feel, act and make decisions about them likewise become important research considerations
Producing knowledge in collaborative research about virtual worlds: discursive constructions of Second Life
No full textThe topic of the paper is the production of knowledge about the virtual world, Second Life, in a collaborative research project in Denmark on sense-making processes and social and cultural innovation in virtual worlds. The paper applies a discourse analytical approach (based on Faircloug
A Second Life First Year Experience
No full textLearning experiences within Multi User Virtual Environments (MUV
Virtual Commerce (V-Commerce) in Second Life: The Roles of Physical Presence and Brand-Self Connection
No full textSecond Life, in a form of advergaming (a portmanteau o