Chapter 1. Introduction to Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds -- Foundations of human privacy:. Chapter 2. Exploring Privacy from a Philosophical Perspective: Conceptual and Normative Dimensions -- Chapter 3. What’s so special about private parts? How anthropology questions the...

In March 1999, a small number of Californians discovered a new world called "Norrath", populated by an exotic but industrious people. Having just returned from a dangerous exploratory journey through this new world, I can report a number of interesting findings about its people and economy....

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...

This paper explores a unique new source of social valuation: a market for bodies. The internet hosts a number of large synthetic worlds which users can visit by piloting a computer-generated body, known as an avatar. Avatars can have an asset value, in that users can spend time to increase their...