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		<title>CFP: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research &#8211; The Researcher’s Toolbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
**Update**
Researcher&#8217;s Toolbox Methods Issue Abstract Submissions: toolbox_abstracts@jvwresearch.org
Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words, including a title, names and affiliations of authors, in e-mail format.
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Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: The Researcher’s Toolbox
 
I. Editorial Team
• Tom Boellstorff, University of California, Irvine
• Celia Pearce, Georgia Tech University
• Dmitri Williams, University of Southern California
• Thomas Malaby, University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=94</link>
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		<title>JVWR Special Edition Call for Papers: Virtual Worlds for Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CALL FOR PAPERS
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://jvwresearch.org/)
Special issue, Vol. 3 (3), 2010: Virtual Worlds for Kids
Abstract Deadline: 20 October 2009
Guest Editors:
Sun Sun Lim, National University of Singapore, sunlim@nus.edu.sg
Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver, Lynn.Clark@du.edu 
While virtual worlds for young adults have received considerable research attention, virtual worlds for young children – from preschoolers to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=90</link>
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		<title>JVWR Special Edition Call for Papers:  Government and Virtual Worlds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Journal of Virtual Worlds Research – http://jvwresearch.org
Special Edition: Government and Virtual Worlds
Guest editors:
Paulette Robinson, PhD
Michael Piller, PhD
Information Resources Management College
National Defense University
Co-Leaders—Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds
The government has been increasingly interested in creating and using digital collaborative environments to interact within agencies, across agencies and with the citizens.  The current Obama administration has provided a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=88</link>
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		<title>JVWR Call for Papers: &#8220;The Metaverse Assembled&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CALL FOR PAPERS
The metaverse is emerging, through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end-users to create, develop, and interact, expanding the realm of human cooperation, interaction, and creativity. This issue focuses on applications and developments of metaverse platforms, including: Second Life, OpenSim, Open Croquet, Activeworlds, Open Source Metaverse, Project [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=77</link>
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		<title>CFP &#8211; JVWR &#8211; Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Service Delivery in Virtual Worlds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CALL FOR PAPERS &#8211; Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

Theme: Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Service Delivery in Virtual Worlds

Deadlines: Abstract &#8211; June15, 2009.
Full manuscript &#8211; November 1, 2009
Publication Date: December 15, 2009
Guest Editors:
Mandy Salomon, Smart Internet Technology CRC, msalomon@swin.edu.au
Serge Soudoplatoff, ESCP-EAP, Hetic; serge@almatropie.org
Whether it may be server as ‘land’, avatar enhancements, like a sword in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=62</link>
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		<title>CFP: JVWR &#8211; Virtual Worlds: Technology, Economy, and Standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CFP &#8211; Update&#8230;
We are relatively open re the abstract format:
* Make it 1-3 pages (1 full page in condense form is fine&#8230; but do not limit yourself).
* Use the first page to tell us the gist of your submission
* What is the format (&#8220;full research papers, research-in-brief papers, “think-pieces,” essays, monographs, interactive online exhibits with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=60</link>
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		<title>JVWR: Call for Think Pieces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://jvwresearch.org) is soliciting &#8220;think pieces&#8221; in response to the following questions:
&#8220;In thinking about the spaces of virtual worlds, and the practices
we witness within them, how can we define what counts as culture?
Can we see any common cultural trends emerging in different virtual
worlds, or are practices as disparate as the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=64</link>
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		<title>CFP: JVWR &#8211; 3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The May/June 2009 issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR &#8211; http://jvwresearch.org) is inviting interested authors and research groups to submit their original research papers, research-in-brief papers, reviews, monographs and &#8216;think pieces&#8217;, interactive online exhibits with accompanying detailed descriptions, and other forms of scholarship to be considered for publication in a forthcoming issue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=55</link>
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		<title>Journal Critique: The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: A Serious Look at Virtual Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: A Serious Look at Virtual Life 
November 25th, 2008				 &#124;    Published in  SLentrepreneur Magazine Feature Articles
by Sigmund Leominster,  News Editor
The Second Life™ virtual world is, as we know, one of a number of online environments available to consumers. And it would not be unfair to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=53</link>
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		<title>Google Lively is Dead&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/google-kills-lively/
For one reason or another, it seems that Google is out of the virtual worlds business.
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		<link>http://editor.jvwresearch.org/?p=51</link>
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