| Description |
xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1 The Death of Urizenus -- 2 Inside the Virtual World -- 3 Slinging Bolts at the Robot Factory -- 4 A Day in the Life of a Techno-Pagan Newsroom -- 5 Dollars and Cyberspace -- 6 The Case of the Broken Jaw -- 7 Crossing the Line: Scamming, Grieflng, and Real-World Crime -- 8 Down the Rabbit Hole -- 9 "Cyber Me, Baby!": Sex, Love, and Software in the Virtual World -- 10 Murdered! -- 11 Behind the Pixel Curtain -- 12 Taking It to the Virtual Streets -- 13 Into the Code: Exploits, Mods, and Hacks -- 14 The Resurrection of Urizenus Sklar -- 15 The Power of the Virtual Press -- 16 Ruling the Metaverse -- 17 The Day the Grid Disappeared -- 18 The Metaverse Is Born -- Appendix A A Declaration of the Rights of Avatars -- Appendix B Herald Obituary: In Memory of Candace Bolter, aka Kale |
| Summary |
"In this book, Peter Ludlow and his colleague Mark Wallace take us behind the scenes of the Herald as they report on the emergence of a fascinating universe of virtual spaces that will become the next generation of the World Wide Web: a 3-D environment that provides richer, more expressive interactions than the Web we know today. They chronicle the issue that the mainstream media often ignore: conflicts across the client-server divide over who should write the laws governing virtual worlds."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Second Life (Game)
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Avatars (Virtual reality)
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Tabloid newspapers -- Fiction -- Computer programs.
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Shared virtual environments.
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Internet.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Wallace, M. (Mark), 1955-
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| LC no. |
2007002794 |
| ISBN |
9780262122948 hardcover alkaline paper |
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