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008 070712s2008 nyu 001 0 eng
010 _a 2007028684
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020 _a9780061353208
020 _a0061353205
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn155715254
035 _a(OCoLC)155715254
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050 0 0 _aGV1469.25.S425
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100 1 _aAu, Wagner James.
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245 1 4 _aThe making of Second Life
_bnotes from the new world
_cWagner James Au.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York
_bCollins
_cc2008.
300 _axxii, 274 pages
_c24 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 _aSecond Life (Game)
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650 0 _aShared virtual environments
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856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007028684.html
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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