The Brief History, Tumultuous Present, and Uncertain Future of Virtual Worlds (Terrae Fabricatae)

• Main Authors: Comas, Jordi, TSCHANG, F. Ted
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Virtual Reality; Virtual World; Institutional Logic; Uncertain Future; Game World; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3426; https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137318411_11
• Institution: Singapore Management University

One fact dominates the brief history of virtual worlds (VWs) and the explosion in numbers of worlds, their users and possible activities. VWs owe their existence to the uneasy admixture of video games and emerging social media (Damer, 2008). The overlap of these two phenomena in VWs forms a watershe...