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Synthetic Worlds : The Business and Culture of Online Games

Castronova, Edward - 2008

From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hours-and dollars-partaking in this popular new...

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Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to the Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI

Bell, Mark W.; Castronova, Edward; Wagner, Gert G. - 2008

Changes in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research. The proliferation of the computer has allowed the creation of web and computer assisted auto-interview data collection modes. Virtual worlds are a new application of computer...

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Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier

Castronova, Edward - Berkeley Electronic Press

owning company, Sony, considers everything created in the world to be its intellectual property. Unlike many internet … effects are as powerful here as they have been with other internet innovations, virtual worlds may be the next step in the … evolution of internet (and possibly human) culture. …

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On virtual economies

Castronova, Edward - 2002

Several million people currently have accounts in massively multi-player online games, places in cyberspace that are effectively large-scale shared virtual reality environments. The population of these virtual worlds has grown rapidly since their inception in 1996; significantly, each world also...

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