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Investigates gendered aspects of the virtual environment suit as a particular mode of disembodied subjectivity, drawing on the work of Zoe Sofia (1992), Elizabeth Grosz (1992), & Luce Irigaray (1985). It is suggested that scientific commentary on virtual environments commonly refers to them in terms of the creation & control of occupiable spaces. As a key aspect of this control, the virtual environment suit weds technology & body into a cyborg-like fantasy of eradicated corporeal limits & disembodied mastery. In the guise of the virtual environment suit, cyberspace becomes a kind of ideal love object that is endless, reiterative, & excessively recombinant. However, despite the effort to erase the gendered female Other, the body of disembodied consciousness is intrinsically tied to the bodies it excludes. It is this paradox that opens opportunities for redeploying cyberspace in terms of differences between the spatiality of bodies rather than in terms of a unitary, masterful subjectivity. 27 References. D. Ryfe

Virtual worlds as a regulatory challenge : a user perspective / Christoph Klimmt -- Crime potential of metaverses / Christian Laue -- Is virtual violence a morally problematic behavior? / Tilo Hartmann -- Media violence and criminality / Dieter Hermann -- Internet dependency : symptoms, diagnosis and therapy / Bert Theodor teWildt -- Conflict resolution in virtual worlds : general characteristics and the 2009 Dutch convictions on virtual theft / Arno R. Lodder -- Responsibility under criminal law in virtual worlds / Kai Cornelius

This e-book presents three papers presented at the Second International Conference on Teaching Applied and Professional Ethics in Higher Education in September 2005. The papers - based around the conference theme of "Ethics in the Virtual World" - reflect major and continuing themes in computing, ethics and society: access to confidential and sensitive health records; and the teaching of professional computing ethics information

Sue Higgins, Dr. Peter Denning, Scot Miller ; Our project met its final deliverable with a book chapter, Being in Uncertainty: Cultivating a New Sensibility in Military Education in モInnovative Learning: A Key to National Securityヤ (General editors: Ralph Doughty, Linton Wells II, & Theodore Hailes, Army Press, Dec 2015.) http://armypress.dodlive.mil/?p=1659 This project explored how military officers would respond to a virtual world, course designed to improve effective leadership of small teams. ; Naval Research Program ; Prepared for: OPNAV N1, Mr. Ilia Christman

We explore the scientific potential of virtual worlds for experimental economics in terms of the subject pools and experimental platforms they present. Our results offer tentative, qualified support for virtual world experimentation. Overall, the be- haviour of virtual subjects recruited, incentivised and observed within Second Life across a range of five standard experimental games was not found to differ significantly from established standard results. In addition, we identify certain methodological opportunities and challenges which confront virtual world experimenters.

This article explores governance and control in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). It examines areas where tactics of control are mobilized: by developers through design processes, by publishers through community management and legal practices and by players through participatory practices. As people with access to online technologies come to live more of their social lives (and work lives) in online environments, and to construct identities and communities in proprietary spaces, the terms under which they do so become increasingly important. In a context where economic value resides in intellectual property and immaterial labour, and where social networks have economic value extracted from them, the corporate practices which harness this value and the responses of participants become interesting for sociocultural and economic reasons. Using EverQuest and World of Warcraft as case studies, this article traces the flows of power between publishers, developers and players in the networked production of MMOGs.