Collecting short thought pieces by some of the leading thinkers on the emerging 'Immersive Internet', Power and Teigland's book questions what a more immersive and intimate internet - based on social media, augmented reality, virtual worlds, online games, 3D internet and beyond - might mean for society and for each of us.
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"The Immersive Internet provides the first omnibus account of the emerging world-view of people who spend most of their quality time mediated by computer-based technologies. It should be taken seriously by anyone trying to design a liberal arts curriculum for Humanity 2.0." Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK
Antti Ainamo, Aalto University, Finland
Smiljana Antonijevi?, Roskilde University, Denmark
James Barrett, Umeå University, Sweden
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, USA
Cynthia Calongne, Colorado Technical University, USA
Edward Castronova, Indiana University, USA
Stefano Consiglio, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Alicia B. Corts, University of Georgia, USA
William N. Dilla, Iowa State University, USA
Denise Doyle, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Inger-Marie Falgren Christensen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Andrew F. Forney, University of California, USA
Richard L. Gilbert, Loyola Marymount University, California
Chuck Hamilton, IBM Centre for Advanced Learning, Vancouver
Andrew Harrison, Iowa State University, USA
Jonny Holmström, Umeå University, Sweden
Isto Huvila, Uppsala University, Sweden
Steve Mahaley, Duke Corporate Education, USA
Gianluigi Mangia, University of Naples, Italy
Andrew Marunchak, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Rhonda McEwen, University of Toronto, Canada
Brian E. Mennecke, Iowa State University, USA
Riccardo Mercurio, of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Tony O'Driscoll, Duke Corporate Education, USA
Rick Oller, Artist and Software Designer, USA
Dominic Power, Uppsala University, Sweden
Peggy Sheehy, Suffern Middle School, USA
Cristina Stefanelli, University Iuav of Venice, Italy
Andrew Stricker, The Air University, USA
Tuukka Tammi, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL),Finland
Robin Teigland, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Maria Laura Toraldo, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
Anthony M. Townsend, Iowa State University, USA
Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada
Müberra Yüksel, Kadir Has University, Turkey
Matthew Zook, University of Kentucky, USA
1. Postcards from the Metaverse: An Introduction to the Immersive Internet; Dominic Power and Robin Teigland 2. Niggling Inequality: A Second Introduction to the Immersive Internet; Edward Castronova 3. The Distributed Self: Virtual Worlds and the Future of Human Identity; Richard Gilbert and Andrew Forney 4. Meta-dreaming: Entangling the Virtual and the Physical; Denise Doyle 5. Individually Social: Approaching the Merging of Virtual Worlds, the Semantic Web, and Social Networks; Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez 6. Virtual Worlds as Radical Theater: Extending the Proscenium; Anthony M. Townsend and Brian E. Mennecke 7. Virtual Worlds and Indigenous Narratives; James Barrett 8. The Immersive Hand: Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Environments; Smiljana Antonijevi? 9. Discovering the 'I' in Avatar: Performance and Self-Therapy; Alicia B. Corts 10. Reflections and Projections: Enabling the Social Enterprise; Steve Mahaley, Chuck Hamilton and Tony O'Driscoll 11. Added Value of Teaching in a Virtual World; Inger-Marie Falgren Christensen, Andrew Marunchak and Cristina Stefanelli 12. Play & Fun Politics to Increase the Pervasiveness of Social Community: The Experience of Angels 4 Travellers; Maria Laura Toraldo, Gianluigi Mangia, Stefano Consiglio and Riccardo Mercurio 13. Framing Online Games Positively: Entertaining and Engagement through 'Mindful Loss' of Flow; Müberra Yüksel 14. Inhabitants of Virtual Worlds, Players of Online Games - Beware!; Antti Ainamo and Tuukka Tammi 15. Relationships, Community, and Networked Individuals; Rhonda McEwen and Barry Wellman 16. Gemeinschaft Identity in a Gesellschaft Metaverse; Cynthia Calongne, Peggy Sheehy and Andrew Stricker Sorting out the Metaverse and How the Metaverse is Sorting Us Out; Isto Huvila 17. On the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding Internet-based Generative Platforms; Jonny Holmström 18. Social Norms, Regulatory Policies, and Virtual Behavior; Andrew Harrison, Brian E. Mennecke and William N. Dilla 19.Self-organising Virtuality; Rick Oller 20. Making Currency Personal: The Salutory Tale of the Downfall of the DomDrachma; Matthew Zook Afterword; Tom Boellstorff
