Virtual Social Networks: Mediated, Massive and Multiplayer Sites

✍ Scribed by Niki Panteli

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As technology changes, so too have its applications and our uses and experiences with them have changed as well. The emergence of new technologies offer opportunities for new ways of interacting, playing, working and learning. It is within the context of simultaneous excitement and anxiety that the author discusses virtual social networks.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
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List of Tables
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List of Figures
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Contributors
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1 Virtual Social Networks: A New Dimension for Virtuality Research
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2 Learning Virtually or Virtually Distracted? The Impact of Emerging Internet Technologies on Pedagogical Practice
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3 VU @ Second Life: A Report on Experiences with theDevelopment of a (Virtual) Community of Learners
......Page 55
4 Patient Preferences for Online Person-Person Support
......Page 71
5 The Social Impact of Online Games: The Case of Germany
......Page 94
6 The Sexi(e)st of All: Avatars, Gender, and Online Games......Page 117
7 What Users of Virtual Social Networks Value about Social Interaction: The Case of GreyPath
......Page 133
8 Labour’s Second Life: From a Virtual Strike to Union Island......Page 153
9 Community as Commodity: Social Networking and Transnational Capitalism
......Page 174
10 Virtual Intimacy: Desire and Ideology in Virtual Social
Networks......Page 194
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Y
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