1 Social Interaction in Virtual Environments: Key Issues, Common Themes, and a Framework for Research.- 2 Social Conventions in Computer-mediated Communication: A Comparison of Three Online Shared Virtual Environments.- 3 Living Digitally: Embodiment in Virtual Worlds.- 4 Rest in Peace, Bill the Bot: Death and Life in Virtual Worlds.- 5 30 Days in Active Worlds - Community, Design and Terrorism in a Virtual World.- 6 Lessons Learned: Building and Deploying Shared Virtual Environments.- 7 The Long-term Uses of Shared Virtual Environments: An Exploratory Study.- 8 Social Influence within Immersive Virtual Environments.- 9 Meeting People Virtually: Experiments in Shared Virtual Environments.- 10 Collaboration in Multi-modal Virtual Worlds: Comparing Touch, Text and Voice and Video.- 11 The Digital Divide: Status Differences in Virtual Environments.- 12 The Social Life of Small Graphical Chat Spaces.
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