1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961923503321

Titolo

Creating second lives : community, identity and spatiality as constructions of the virtual / / edited by Astrid Ensslin and Eben Muse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

9786613151360

9781283151368

1283151367

9781136809286

1136809287

9780203828571

0203828577

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

EnsslinAstrid

MuseEben J

Disciplina

006.8

Soggetti

Human-computer interaction

Virtual reality

Online social networks

Online identities

Second Life (Game) - Social aspects

Avatars (Virtual reality)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Eben Muse and Astrid Ensslin -- Creating second communities. Liberate your avatar: the revolution will be socially networked / Paul Sermon and Charlotte Gould -- An imagined community of avatars : a theoretical interrogation of "Second life" as nation through the lens of Benedict Anderson's imagined communities  / Kevin Miguel Sherman -- Programming processes: controlling "second lives" / Elizabeth Burgess -- Creating second identities. Embodiment and gender identity in virtual worlds: reconfiguring our "volatile bodies" / Sonia Fizek and Monika Wasilewska -- The body of the avatar: constructing human presence in virtual worlds  / Denise



Doyle -- The grips of fantasy: the construction of female characters in and beyond virtual game worlds / Isamar Carrillo Masso -- Creating second spaces. Second chances: depictions of the natural world in "Second life" / Joseph S. Clark -- Avatar needs and the remediation of architecture in "Second life" / Astrid Ensslin -- The event of space: defining place in a virtual landscape / Eben Muse -- Afterword / Tom  Boellstorff.

Sommario/riassunto

This book aims to provide insights into how 'second lives' in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book's philosophy is multi-disciplinary and its goal is to explore the question of how we as gamers and residents of virtual worlds construct alternative online realities in a variety of ways. Of particular significance to this endeavour are conceptions of the body in cyberspace and of spatiality, which man

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968116903321

Titolo

Models of start-up thinking and action : theoretical, empirical and pedagogical approaches / / edited by Jerome A. Katz, Andrew C. Corbett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9781786354853

1786354853

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 pages)

Collana

Advances in entrepreneurship, firm emergence and growth, , 1074-7540 ; ; v. 18

Altri autori (Persone)

KatzJerome A

CorbettAndrew C

Disciplina

658.11

Soggetti

Business & Economics - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

New business enterprises

Business planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Towards a design science of entrepreneurship / Dimo Dimov -- Sociocultural context, entrepreneur types, mindsets and entrepreneurial action in Tiradentes, Brazil / Reed Nelson, Anderson Santana, Matthew Wood -- New venture planning and lean start-up activities: a longitudinal empirical study of entrepreneurial success, founder preferences and venture context / Benson Honig, Christian Hopp -- A design thinking-based conceptualization of the "how" and "what" of nascent social venture development / Aparna Katre -- The evolution of business plans in international business plan competitions / Charles Hofer -- An exploration of the phenomenon of business planning in nascent and young firms / Christopher Garonne, Per Davidsson -- How should entrepreneurship be taught to students with diverse experience? A set of conceptual models of entrepreneurship education / Zhaocheng (Elly) Zeng, Benson Honig.

Sommario/riassunto

Volume 18 will focus on approaches to thinking about and creating the start-up. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider all aspects of start-up planning, thinking and action will be considered. We also encourage practice-based research and manuscripts that explore cutting-edge pedagogical approaches. The papers in Advances reflect many state-of-the-art topics and approaches, and are written by leading researches in the field, making each volume an important source of information for virtually all entrepreneurship researchers. One of the distinctive competences of research volumes such as Advances is that the chapters can be published without page restrictions allowing for greater detail in the background, development, and implementation of ideas than is possible in journal articles. This provides authors with the opportunity to fully express their key ideas, provide much more complete support, and include relevant multi-page appendices. In effect, the Advances series provides authors the opportunity to publish an "article of record" of their major theoretical or empirical ideas, and see it disseminated to a wide audience.