Merrill L. Johnson
Social Virtual Worlds and Their Places: A Geographer’s Guide
Social Virtual Worlds and Their Places: A Geographer’s Guide
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The book explores social virtual worlds from a geographer's perspective, analyzing their content and meaning, and applying geographical understanding to avatar motivations and identity choices. It includes a mixed-methods survey and vignettes, making it an essential resource for geographers and anyone interested in the virtual world experience.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 322 pages
Publication date: 12 June 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
This book offers a comprehensive examination of social virtual worlds from a geographical perspective, exploring their origins, evolution, and significance. It delves into the motivations and identity choices of avatar users, examining their virtual-world experiences and the similarities and differences between these spaces and the real world. Through a mixed-methods survey conducted in Second Life and a series of vignettes, the book provides a rich and diverse exploration of social virtual worlds, making it an essential resource for geographers and anyone interested in the virtual world experience.
Social Virtual Worlds: A Geographical Perspective
This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographers perspective. How can the geographers craft be applied to social virtual worlds? This question is addressed through careful analysis of what social virtual worlds are, how interest in these worlds has waxed and waned during the twenty-first century, and the meaning of their concocted spaces. Examining one of the key features of the social virtual world, the avatar, the book focuses on its users motivations and identity choices. The book draws on the geographical understanding of place to examine where avatars live, work, and roam, and describes how virtual-world places resemble and diverge from actual-world places. A mixed-methods survey conducted in Second Life adds additional breadth to the discussion, whilst a series of vignettes gives extra life to the subject matter. This original exploration of the content and meaning of social virtual worlds is an essential resource for geographers, and for anyone interested in the virtual world experience.
Weight: 445g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811686283
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022
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