The Real in the Ethereal: Creating Space, Meaning, and Power Online

Tomi Ihalainen
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Within the context of virtual worlds, this paper aims to build and frame issues of inequality, access, and meaning, within the world’s rising economies. What we can draw from is an idea of built communities, and meaningful interactions, that have set the stage for economic participation. Virtual economies therefore are fueled by spaces that people participate in, and how these have transformed structures that use them for economic extraction. This can be best seen in the form of ‘gold farming’ which has produced virtual sweatshops. I evaluate these practices, alongside ideas of how governments are considering these economies, as well as how in the future these issues can be addressed with further research.
虚幻中的真实:在线创造空间、意义和力量
在虚拟世界的背景下,本文旨在构建和构建世界新兴经济体中的不平等、获取和意义问题。我们可以从中得到的是建立社区的想法,以及有意义的互动,这些都为经济参与奠定了基础。因此,虚拟经济是由人们参与的空间推动的,以及这些空间如何改变了利用它们进行经济提取的结构。这可以从“黄金农场”的形式中得到最好的体现,它产生了虚拟的血汗工厂。我评估了这些实践,以及政府如何考虑这些经济体的想法,以及未来如何通过进一步的研究来解决这些问题。
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