Virtual Worlds: Top Five Books Cover Second Life, Avatars, and Cash
Art and Exploration, Deep Thoughts, Identity and Expression | (7)
If you had to recommend 5 books on virtual worlds what would they be?
I was chatting with a professor - you know, the kind of person who uses parentheses when he's talking, has a slender pair of reading glasses perched on the end of his nose and wears strangely patterned sweaters now that fall is here. Anyways, he was asking me how to learn more about virtual worlds and I made the mistake of rattling off a few URLS, but what he actually wanted was, um, a list of BOOKS - I guess he needed the filter of fellow eggheads ...
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Edward Castranova,
Hamlet Au,
Jacob Van Kokswijk,
James Wagner Au,
Linden Lab,
Margaret Mead,
Mark Stephen Meadows,
philip rosedale,
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Second Life,
tom boellstorff,
Virtual worlds