TY  - BOOK
AU  - Au,Wagner James
TI  - The making of Second Life: notes from the new world
SN  - 9780061353208
AV  - GV1469.25.S425 A9 2008
U1  - 794.8 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Collins
KW  - Second Life (Game)
KW  - Local
KW  - Shared virtual environments
N1  - Includes index; 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028684.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2007028684-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/2007028684-d.html
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