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Making Virtual Worlds : Linden Lab and Second Life.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (179 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801458996
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making Virtual WorldsDDC classification:
  • 794.8
LOC classification:
  • GV1469
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Developer's-Eye View -- 1. The Product: Second Life, Capital, and the Possibility of Failure in a Virtual World -- 2. Tools of the Gods -- 3. Knowing the Gamer from the Game -- 4. The Birth of the Cool -- 5. Precarious Authority -- Appendix A: The Tao of Linden -- Appendix B: The Mission of Linden Lab -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Malaby shows how the workers of a very young but quickly growing company were themselves caught up in ideas about technology, games, and organizations, and struggled to manage not only their virtual world but also themselves in a nonhierarchical fashion.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Developer's-Eye View -- 1. The Product: Second Life, Capital, and the Possibility of Failure in a Virtual World -- 2. Tools of the Gods -- 3. Knowing the Gamer from the Game -- 4. The Birth of the Cool -- 5. Precarious Authority -- Appendix A: The Tao of Linden -- Appendix B: The Mission of Linden Lab -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Malaby shows how the workers of a very young but quickly growing company were themselves caught up in ideas about technology, games, and organizations, and struggled to manage not only their virtual world but also themselves in a nonhierarchical fashion.

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