Exodus to the Virtual World | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780230607859 | Exodus to the Virtual World | How Online Fun Is Changing Reality

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Edward Castronova

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1: NEW FOUND LAND * Dreams Fashioned in Silicon * Game Societies * Worlds of the Future * Migration * PART II: A POLICY ANALYTICS OF FUN * Economics: Not Fun * A Theory of Fun * The New Science of Applied Fun Policy * PART III: FUN POLICY AND THE REAL WORLD * The Fun Economy * The Fun Society * The Fun Revolution: Ending the Politics of Misery

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Genre:	Importe , Informatik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780230607859
ISBN-10:	0230607853
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Castronova, Edward
Hersteller:	St. Martin's Griffin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Edward Castronova
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2008
Gewicht:	0,421 kg