This Virtual Life

This Virtual Life

Author: Andrew Evans

Publisher: Fusion Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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As the media becomes more sophisticated and lifelike, we spend more and moreime in front of television screens. Distinguished psychologist Andrew Evansxamines this warping of reality, and asks where such a path will lead us.;he 21st century presents serious challenges to us all. However, our childrenre growing up thinking the world can be saved by super-heroes, crashedlanes start again at the flick of a switch and people come back to life forhe next round. The author looks at the effects of this distortion of reality.aybe our need to escape the boredom and routine of every day life is beingxploited by the companies who make money by selling us fantasy andimulation. From humour and comedy, to science fiction and computer games,vans examines the variety of distractions available to take our minds offhe daily grind. But how does this new media affect today's children? Whatill be their future tomorrow? And have we become so reliant on escapistantasy that reality can no longer be faced?


Resisting the Virtual Life

Resisting the Virtual Life

Author: James Brook

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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A variety of contributors gauge the impact of the new video, computer, and networked communications on the ways of life in a restructured world, exposing relations of power and dependence and offering strategies of resistance.


The Virtual Life of Film

The Virtual Life of Film

Author: D. N. RODOWICK

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0674042832

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As almost every aspect of making and viewing movies is replaced by digital technologies, even the notion of "watching a film" is fast becoming an anachronism. With the likely disappearance of celluloid film stock as a medium, and the emergence of new media, what will happen to cinema--and to cinema studies? In the first of two books exploring this question, Rodowick considers the fate of film and its role in the aesthetics and culture of the twenty-first century.


Making Virtual Worlds

Making Virtual Worlds

Author: Thomas Malaby

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0801457750

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The past decade has seen phenomenal growth in the development and use of virtual worlds. In one of the most notable, Second Life, millions of people have created online avatars in order to play games, take classes, socialize, and conduct business transactions. Second Life offers a gathering point and the tools for people to create a new world online. Too often neglected in popular and scholarly accounts of such groundbreaking new environments is the simple truth that, of necessity, such virtual worlds emerge from physical workplaces marked by negotiation, creation, and constant change. Thomas Malaby spent a year at Linden Lab, the real-world home of Second Life, observing those who develop and profit from the sprawling, self-generating system they have created. Some of the challenges created by Second Life for its developers were of a very traditional nature, such as how to cope with a business that is growing more quickly than existing staff can handle. Others are seemingly new: How, for instance, does one regulate something that is supposed to run on its own? Is it possible simply to create a space for people to use and then not govern its use? Can one apply these same free-range/free-market principles to the office environment in which the game is produced? "Lindens"—as the Linden Lab employees call themselves—found that their efforts to prompt user behavior of one sort or another were fraught with complexities, as a number of ongoing processes collided with their own interventions. Malaby thoughtfully describes the world of Linden Lab and the challenges faced while he was conducting his in-depth ethnographic research there. He shows how the workers of a very young but quickly growing company were themselves caught up in ideas about technology, games, and organizations, and struggled to manage not only their virtual world but also themselves in a nonhierarchical fashion. In exploring the practices the Lindens employed, he questions what was at stake in their virtual world, what a game really is (and how people participate), and the role of the unexpected in a product like Second Life and an organization like Linden Lab.


Second Life

Second Life

Author: Brian A. White

Publisher: Que Publishing

Published: 2007-08-21

Total Pages: 982

ISBN-13: 0132714493

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Live your Second Life to the fullest! Create Your Virtual Life in an Incredible Online World...Right Now! Imagine a virtual landscape where everything is created and owned entirely by residents like you. Imagine a place where you can enjoy sunsets, ride a jet ski, buy land, plant a garden, get a tattoo, go sky diving, spend an evening dancing the night away, or relax at home by the fire. Picture a world vividly developed, socially dynamic, and strikingly real where you can bring previously unimaginable things to life with friends from around the globe. This is Second Life®, the hottest Internet phenomenon in years…maybe ever! Now, there’s a totally real, totally independent guide to Second Life. This full-color book is as rich as Second Life itself! It’s packed with insider tips, easy step-by-step techniques, and interviews with dozens of SL residents telling you what they wished they knew when they started! Brian White pulls no punches: You’ll learn exactly what’s great and not so great about SL...how to thrive in its unique culture, and how to create your dreams! The more time you spend in Second Life, the more useful this book will become...teaching you more advanced skills; everything from vehicle construction, Linden Scripting Language, particle systems, to creating custom animations and the new sculpted prims! Visit the companion site in Second Life to find all the textures and objects from this book as well as the contributor’s gallery and other goodies: http://slurl.com/secondlife/humuli/222/123/29


My Tiny Life

My Tiny Life

Author: Julian Dibbell

Publisher: Julian Dibbell

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780805036268

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This novelistic rendering of a true account tells of a celebrated rape case which took place in an electronic "salon", where Internet junkies have created their own interactive fantasy realm.


Exodus to the Virtual World

Exodus to the Virtual World

Author: Edward Castronova

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2007-11-27

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0230608612

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Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality environments (like World of Warcraft and Second Life), these millions are the start of an exodus into the refuge of fantasy, where they experience life under a new social, political, and economic order built around fun. Given the choice between a fantasy world and the real world, how many of us would choose reality? Exodus to the Virtual World explains the growing migration into virtual reality, and how it will change the way we live--both in fantasy worlds and in the real one.


Virtual World

Virtual World

Author: Jerina Stephy

Publisher: The Little Booktique Hub

Published:

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9390487625

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This anthology is a collection of views on "virtual world". This very title chosen not because of the hatred towards digital world on the contrary it's my anxiety. Somewhere in the future, I fear the days where virtuality exists no more as virtuality but has become so close to in achieving the essence of realness that no more it can't be differentiated from reality. Yeah... unlike that deceiving digital world, reality could be disappointing but it is the truth and nothing is more beautiful than the truth.


Learning the Virtual Life

Learning the Virtual Life

Author: Peter Pericles Trifonas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-04-23

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 113673886X

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Learning the Virtual Life offers ways to consider the local and global effects of digital media on educational environments, as well as the cultural transformations of how we now define learning and literacy.


The Virtual Life of Fizzy Oceans

The Virtual Life of Fizzy Oceans

Author: David A. Ross

Publisher: Open Books

Published: 2011-01-02

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 145243090X

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Fizzy Oceans lives, works and travels in the virtual world where the dead are very much alive, places like ancient Babylon have been reconstructed, and with the click of a button †WHOOSH! †one is transported throughout the Ages to events and destinations that make up our human history.