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Bibliography 1, Virtual Worlds and Second Life

Citations and Scholarly References about Virtual Worlds and Second Life

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Interview with Prof. Maren Hartmann (1)

This interview (1) is about Non-Users of Digital Communication.

This interview with Prof. Maren Hartmann, Universität der Künste, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftskommunikation, Berlin, is about her coming research projects and interests in non-users of digital communication and media.

Maren Hartmann has been our visiting guest researcher in February and March 2009. She has been invited to critically review the results in 2008 of our research project and to give advice as to what we will have to further look into in our future research.

We will invite Prof. Maren Hartmann again later in the project to review what we have acchieved and what need be done, and to ask for her advice.

Prof. Maren Hartmann is interviewed by Prof. Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Communication Studies at the Department of Communication Studies, Business, and Information Technologies, Roskilde University.

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Interview with Prof. Maren Hartmann (2)

This interview (2) is entitled The Cyberflaneur and You.

This interview with Prof. Maren Hartmann, Universität der Künste, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftskommunikation, Berlin, is about her research interest in the literary figure of the Flaneur and the further development hereof with the concept of the Cyberflaneur.

Prof. Maren Hartmann is interviewed by Dr. CarrieLynn Reinhard, Communication Studies at the Department of Communication Studies, Business, and Information Technologies, Roskilde University.

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Interview with Prof. Maren Hartmann (3)

This interview (3) is about The Networks to Come.

This interview with Prof. Maren Hartmann, Universität der Künste, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftskommunikation, Berlin, is about her work with the European Communication Research and Education Association, ECREA. Prof. Maren Hartmann was one of the initiators of the ECREA section Digital Culture and Communication. She is now a member of the board of ECREA.

Prof. Maren Hartmann is interviewed by Prof. Louise Phillips, Communication Studies at the Department of Communication Studies, Business, and Information Technologies, Roskilde University.

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Dialogic Communication of Research, Nordic Network

The Nordic Network for the Study of Dialogic Communication of Research is a three-year research network running 2008-2011 financed by NordForsk.

The network connects 32 researchers from 8 Nordic universities: Roskilde University, Copenhagen Business School, Aalborg University, Copenhagen University, Oslo University, Agder University College, Luleå Technical University and Tampere University. 6 workshops will be arranged over the three-year period and a ph.d.-course is to be held at Roskilde University in spring 2010.

The coordinator of the network is Louise Phillips, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Communication Studies at Roskilde University, CBIT, who is also a member of the research project on Virtual Worlds and User-driven Innovation. Louise Phillips is the SIRA-profile of this month – Swedish Interactive Research Association (SIRA). You can read more about the network on the SIRA website.

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Sirikata: Open Source Platform for Virtual Worlds


Sirikata Teaser from Sirikata on Vimeo.

* Sirikata is an BSD licensed open source platform for virtual worlds. We aim to provide a set of libraries and protocols which can be used to deploy a virtual world, as well as fully featured sample implementations of services for hosting and deploying these worlds.
* We are aiming for an alpha release in Q2 2009 and this video teaser should give you some sense of what to expect.

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