[Opensim-users] CfP: Futures of Real and Virtual Worlds

Tue Mar 10 21:55:49 UTC 2015

artificial limps? ;-)

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Tzafnat Shpak <
tzafnat.shpak at jvwresearch.org> wrote:

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> CfP: Futures of Real and Virtual Worlds
> A Special exploratory Issue
> Edited by: Yesha Sivan, Editor in Chief, the Journal of Virtual Worlds
> Research
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> The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://www.jvwresearch.org/) is
> an online, open access peer-reviewed academic journal that engages a wide
> spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many
> disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual worlds’ research.
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> Design the future
> This call is about the future, or more so, possible futures. We are
> looking for *reflective papers (1000-3000 words) *that will describe
> specific angles to the real and virtual worlds. We are exploring and
> defining our future.  The collection of reflective futures will help us
> design the next 7 years of the journal.
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> Topics include but are not limited to:
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>    - 3D fun
>    - Mini robots
>    - Social networks that change our mind
>    - Artificial limps
>    - New forms of hardware
>    - Augmented and mixed environments
>    - Wearables
>    - User generated content
>    - 3D printing
>    - Visual data streaming
>    - Immersive technologies
>    - Shopping from home
>    - Projections of the real
>    - Wireless people
>    - Portable friends
>    - The Internet of Things
>    - Virtual currencies
>    - E-readers
>    - …
>    - And more…
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> Motivation
> The journal, JVWR, is celebrating its 8th year anniversary in 2015. In
> 2015 we will also publish the book “*3D3C Platforms: Applications and
> Tools for Three Dimensional Platforms for Community, Creation and Commerce*”
> published by Springer, as a summary of this field’s state of the art.
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> In 2008, when Jeremiah Spence founded* #JVWR*, the excitement of a
> flexible, user-generated world was very high. It seemed that the world of *Second
> Life(R)* had taken years of hardware, software, and social-ware
> experiences into a new level. That it would change” the world. This was yet
> another wave of promise of virtual reality.
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> In 2008, users, business analysts and academics alike used to be at awe
> because Second Life had millions of users; commerce was done virtually;
> there were grievers in virtual worlds, and people could create 3D objects
> by themselves.
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> In 2015 today, 7 years later, Facebook has more than 1.35 billion monthly
> active users; commerce is done with a fingerprint via Apple pay; cyber
> criminals are attacking real companies, and people are printing their own
> outfits and objects. Much has changed. *The virtual is becoming the real
> and the real is becoming the virtual*. It seems that the term “virtual
> worlds” as a key term for an academic domain, does not make sense anymore.
> It is time for us, as an academic journal, to take an “academic
> sabbatical” to define the future of our Journal in light the possible
> futures of both worlds (real and virtual. Of course, this will be an active
> Sabbatical where we try to grapple with several questions that revolve
> around the nature of the field, and on how we best advance it as an
> academic journal.
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> Submission Instructions
> Authors are invited to *submit original scholarly papers of 1000-3000
> words* including footnotes, references, and appendices. Interested
> authors should submit a *full paper* by the deadline indicated below. All
> submissions should be made via the JVWR publishing system (see www.jvwreserach.org
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> All submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published
> online in the Volume 8, Number 2 (2015) of the Journal.
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> Deadlines and Timeline
> Authors submit full paper: *May 30, 2015*
> Editors return review report and initial decision: *Jun 15, 2015*
> Authors submit revised paper: *July 15, 2015*
> Editors return final comments and decision: *July 31, 2015*
> Authors submit final version: *August 15, 2015*
> Planned Publication: *August 31, 2015*
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> Further Information
> Please contact:
> Yesha Sivan yesha.sivan AT jvwresearch DOT org
> Tzafnat Shpak tzafnat.shpak AT jvwresearch DOT org
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