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Amazon.de: I, Avatar. The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life (Testprep (New Riders')): Mark Stephen Meadows: English Books

Meadows, Mark Stephen (2007): I, avatar: the culture and consequences of having a second life. Berkeley, CA: New Riders.\n\n# Taschenbuch: 144 Seiten\n# Verlag: Addison-Wesley Longman, Amsterdam; Auflage: 1 (28. Dezember 2007)\n# Sprache: Englisch\n# ISBN-10: 0321533399\n# ISBN-13: 978-0321533395

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Castranovas virtuelle (Forschungs-) Welt Arden: "Grandios gescheitert" (Technology Review)

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Web Playgrounds of the Very Young - 20 Mio kids in virtual worlds by 2011 - NY Times

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research firm eMarketer, who estimates that 20 million children will be members of a virtual world by 2011
Worlds like Webkinz, where children care for stuffed animals that come to life, have become some of the Web’s fastest-growing businesses.
Club Penguin,
> where members pay $5.95 a month to dress and groom penguin characters and play games with them, attracts seven times more traffic than Second Life.
Nickelodeon, already home to Neopets, is spending $100 million to develop a string of worlds.
Disney’s biggest online world is Club Penguin, which it bought in August from three Canadians in a deal worth $700 million. At the time, more than 700,000 members paid fees of $5.95 a month, delivering annual revenue of almost $50 million.
So Disney is pursuing a portfolio approach, investing $5 million to $10 million per world to develop a string of as many as 10 virtual properties,
Tinker Bell’s world
will introduce it this summer to help build buzz for “Tinker Bell,” a big-budget feature film set for a fall 2008 release
Disney’s goal is to develop a network of worlds that appeal to various age groups, much like the company’s model.
For his penguin, “like for Christmas I bought a fireplace, a flat-screen TV and a Christmas tree,” he said.