The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research最新文献

Redstone Jammin’: Conversational Analysis from a Collaborative Music-Making Activity in Minecraft 《我的世界》中合作音乐制作活动的对话分析

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i2.7351

K. Lim, Lionel Lim

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Editorial: Rendering Sounds, Sales and Instructional Capabilities in a Virtual World 编辑:在虚拟世界中渲染声音、销售和教学能力

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-11-25 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i2-3.7424

Angie M. Cox, Ryan Durbin, Vernell Hall

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Toxic Teammates or Obscene Opponents? Influences of Cooperation and Competition on Hostility between Teammates and Opponents in an Online Game 有毒的队友还是淫秽的对手?网络游戏中合作与竞争对队友与对手敌意的影响

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-03-31 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7334

D. McLean, Frank Waddell, James D. Ivory

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引用次数: 6

Beyond Evil and Good in Online Gaming. An Analysis of Violence in ‘Overwatch’ Between Demonization and Proactive Values 网络游戏中的善恶超越《守望先锋》中暴力行为的妖魔化与积极价值观分析

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-03-31 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7331

Enrico Gandolfi, F. Antonacci

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引用次数: 2

Artificial Beings Worthy of Moral Consideration in Virtual Environments: An Analysis of Ethical Viability 虚拟环境中值得考虑的人工生命:伦理可行性分析

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-03-31 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7369

S. Gualeni

{"title":"Artificial Beings Worthy of Moral Consideration in Virtual Environments: An Analysis of Ethical Viability","authors":"S. Gualeni","doi":"10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7369","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores whether and under which circumstances it is ethically viable to include artificial beings worthy of moral consideration in virtual environments. In particular, the article focuses on virtual environments such as those in digital games and training simulations – interactive and persistent digital artifacts designed to fulfill specific purposes, such as entertainment, education, training, or persuasion. The article introduces the criteria for moral consideration that serve as a framework for this analysis. Adopting this framework, the article tackles the question of whether including artificial intelligences that are entitled to moral consideration in virtual environments constitutes an immoral action on the part of human creators. To address this problem, the article draws on three conceptual lenses from the philosophical branch of ethics: the problem of parenthood and procreation, the question concerning the moral status of animals, and the classical problem of evil. Using a thought experiment, the concluding section proposes a contractualist answer to the question posed in this article. The same section also emphasizes the potential need to reframe our understanding of the design of virtual environments and their future stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":359201,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132190533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

The Griefer and the Stalker: Disruptive Actors in a Second Life Educational Community Griefer和Stalker:第二人生教育社区中的破坏性行为者

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-03-31 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7400

J. DuQuette

{"title":"The Griefer and the Stalker: Disruptive Actors in a Second Life Educational Community","authors":"J. DuQuette","doi":"10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7400","url":null,"abstract":"Linden Lab’s Second Life (SL) is well-known for its hands-off approach to user conflict-resolution. Although users are given tools to mute and block individual accounts as well as ban undesirable avatars from user-owned land, that does not prevent determined, malicious users from disrupting communities and harassing individuals. This case study focuses on two such malicious users exemplary of two specific types of malevolent virtual world actors: in-world griefers and online stalkers. As part of a decade-long ethnographic research project within the Cypris Chat English language learning community in SL, this paper utilizes data gleaned from notes on participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and first-hand encounters. It categorizes the disparate strategies these individuals have used over the years in their attempts to disrupt group cohesion, sow distrust between students and teachers, humiliate individuals, and foment an atmosphere of fear and anxiety. It then reviews the methods community members used to defend themselves from such attacks and analyzes the efficacy of these strategies. This study builds on our understanding of harassment in virtual worlds and acts as a cautionary tale for future virtual world educators and community leaders considering the development of their own online classes and groups.","PeriodicalId":359201,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130871660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Rising to the Challenge of Virtual in the Age of COVID-19: The Macro Framework of Three New Normals (3NN) 应对COVID-19时代的虚拟挑战:三个新常态的宏观框架(3NN)

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-03-31 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7411

Yesha Y. Sivan

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Destruction as Deviant Leisure in EVE Online 《星战前夜》中的破坏是一种越轨休闲

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-03-31 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7403

K. Bergstrom

引用次数: 4

Editorial - The Dark Side of Virtual Worlds 社论-虚拟世界的阴暗面

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-03-31 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7410

Angie M. Cox

引用次数: 1

Darkness and brightness of the cybernaut's behavior in the Three-dimensional Immersive Digital Environments 三维沉浸式数字环境中赛博人行为的黑暗与光明

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Pub Date : 2020-01-30 DOI: 10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7401

Jorge Landaverde Trejo, Christian Jonathan Angel Rueda

{"title":"Darkness and brightness of the cybernaut's behavior in the Three-dimensional Immersive Digital Environments","authors":"Jorge Landaverde Trejo, Christian Jonathan Angel Rueda","doi":"10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v13i1.7401","url":null,"abstract":"This work is an exploratory study on the subject of the behavior of the cybernaut that oscillates between the darkness of the unknown and the brilliance of the discovered when experiencing immersion in three-dimensional digital environments. However, technoscientific advances not only offer advantages but also present risks for the end-users of the devices that are managed to access virtual worlds, virtual reality, and augmented reality. In the best scenario, all developers would be in the dynamic of offering entertainment programs to promote new ways of learning and living together. However, the intentions oscillate between the search for profit, the concealment of deviant intentions, or even the pleasure of dominating or harassing third parties. To avoid such abuses, studies are required that prevent such deviations and that propose pedagogical objectives to use such advances in favor of citizenship education in general and, in particular, to encourage new generations in their own integral development which It can be enhanced through simulation and fiction programs that trigger the creative imagination capable of bringing out the virtues emitted by the brilliance of wisdom and full life from darkness, by exercising in decision-making that involves others, especially the most vulnerable by their age or condition.","PeriodicalId":359201,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124125783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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