The Immersive Internet

Reflections on the Entangling of the Virtual with Society, Politics and the Economy

  • Robin Teigland
  • Dominic Power
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xx
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  2. Postcards from the Metaverse: An Introduction to the Immersive Internet
    Dominic Power, Robin Teigland
    Pages 1-12
  3. Niggling Inequality: A Second Introduction to the Immersive Internet
    Edward Castronova
    Pages 13-22
  4. The Distributed Self: Virtual Worlds and the Future of Human Identity
    Richard Gilbert, Andrew Forney
    Pages 23-36
  5. Meta-Dreaming: Entangling the Virtual and the Physical
    Denise Doyle
    Pages 37-48
  6. Individually Social: Approaching the Merging of Virtual Worlds, the Semantic Web, and Social Networks
    Francisco Gerardo Toledo Ramírez
    Pages 49-64
  7. Virtual Worlds as Radical Theater: Extending the Proscenium
    Anthony M. Townsend, Brian E. Mennecke
    Pages 65-76
  8. Virtual Worlds and Indigenous Narratives
    James Barrett
    Pages 77-91
  9. The Immersive Hand: Non-verbal Communication in Virtual Environments
    Smiljana Antonijević
    Pages 92-105
  10. Discovering the ‘I’ in Avatar: Performance and Self-therapy
    Alicia B. Corts
    Pages 106-113
  11. Reflections and Projections: Enabling the Social Enterprise
    Steve Mahaley, Chuck Hamilton, Tony O’Driscoll
    Pages 114-124
  12. Added Value of Teaching in a Virtual World
    Inger-Marie Falgren Christensen, Andrew Marunchak, Cristina Stefanelli
    Pages 125-137
  13. Play and Fun Politics to Increase the Pervasiveness of Social Community: The Experience of Angels 4 Travellers
    Maria Laura Toraldo, Gianluigi Mangia, Stefano Consiglio, Riccardo Mercurio
    Pages 138-147
  14. Framing Online Games Positively: Entertainment and Engagement through ‘Mindful Loss’ of Flow
    Müberra Yüksel
    Pages 148-157
  15. Inhabitants of Virtual Worlds, Players of Online Video Games — Beware!
    Antti Ainamo, Tuukka Tammi
    Pages 158-167
  16. Relationships, Community, and Networked Individuals
    Rhonda McEwen, Barry Wellman
    Pages 168-179
  17. Gemeinschaft Identity in a Gesellschaft Metaverse
    Cynthia Calongne, Peggy Sheehy, Andrew Stricker
    Pages 180-191
  18. Sorting Out the Metaverse and How the Metaverse Is Sorting Us Out
    Isto Huvila
    Pages 192-203
  19. On the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding Internet-based Generative Platforms
    Jonny Holmström
    Pages 204-213
  20. Social Norms, Regulatory Policies, and Virtual Behavior
    Andrew Harrison, Brian E. Mennecke, William N. Dilla
    Pages 214-227

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

communication Framing identity Internet media Online performance semantic web social network social networks society

Editors and affiliations

  • Robin Teigland
    • 1
  • Dominic Power
    • 2
  1. 1.Stockholm School of EconomicsSweden
  2. 2.Uppsala UniversitySweden

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283023
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Media & Culture Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-44884-5
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-28302-3
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