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<div><div><font color="#333333">Dear subscribers</font><font color="#555555" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif">,</font><br><br><font color="#333333">We are happy to announce the new publication of The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research:</font><br>
<span style="line-height:24.44444465637207px;letter-spacing:2px;font-size:24px;font-weight:bold"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:18px;font-weight:lighter;letter-spacing:1px;line-height:17.77777862548828px"><strong>Volume 5, Number 3: Managerial & Commercial Applications</strong></span></span></div>
<div style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>The editorial team for this issue:</div><ul style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><li><strong>Shu Schiller</strong>, Wright State University, USA</li><li><strong>Brian Mennecke</strong>, Iowa State University, USA</li>
<li><strong>Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah</strong>, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA</li></ul></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div>Scholars and practitioners are confronted with an apparent contradiction: on the one hand, the business case for virtual worlds appears to offer great promise; while on the other hand, the observed returns and demonstrable successes are often absent or negligible. This special issue on <strong>“managerial and commercial applications”</strong> of virtual worlds aims to highlight research that makes a significant and novel contribution in theory and practice about virtual worlds in the business domain.<br>
<br></div>In this last issue of 2012 you will find three papers on the topic, two “Assembled” papers and one “Think Piece.”<br> </div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:18px;letter-spacing:1px">Managing Editor Corner</span><ul>
<li><a href="http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/7031?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announcements&utm_campaign=6dc38cd878-Mng_and_Com_Apps_5_3_Published&utm_medium=email" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">From Orlando to Milan: Virtual Worlds Business Disillusionment</a><br>
Yesha Y. Sivan </li></ul><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:18px;letter-spacing:1px">Research Papers</span><ul><li><a href="http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6324?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announcements&utm_campaign=6dc38cd878-Mng_and_Com_Apps_5_3_Published&utm_medium=email" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Time for a Post-Mortem?: Business Professionals’ Perspectives on the Disillusionment of Virtual Worlds</a><br>
Patrick J. Bateman, Jacqueline C. Pike, Nicholas Berente, Sean Hansen</li><li><a href="http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6335?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announcements&utm_campaign=6dc38cd878-Mng_and_Com_Apps_5_3_Published&utm_medium=email" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Training Evaluation in Virtual Worlds: Development of a Model</a><br>
Richard N. Landers, Rachel C. Callan</li><li><a href="http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6321?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announcements&utm_campaign=6dc38cd878-Mng_and_Com_Apps_5_3_Published&utm_medium=email" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Avatar Identification on a 3D Commercial Website: Gender Issues</a><br>
Ingrid Poncin, Marion Garnier </li></ul><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:18px;letter-spacing:1px">Assembled (Rush to Press Papers)</span><ul><li><a href="http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6296?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announcements&utm_campaign=6dc38cd878-Mng_and_Com_Apps_5_3_Published&utm_medium=email" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Does Loving an Avatar Threaten Real Life Marriage?</a><br>
Richard A Kolotkin, Maggie M Williams, Casey Lloyd, Earnest W Hallford</li><li><a href="http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6280?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announcements&utm_campaign=6dc38cd878-Mng_and_Com_Apps_5_3_Published&utm_medium=email" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">The Cowl Makes the Monk: How Avatar Appearance and Role Labels Affect Cognition in Virtual Worlds</a><br>
Jorge Peña, Matthew S McGlone, Joseph Sanchez</li></ul><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:18px;letter-spacing:1px">“Think Pieces”</span><ul><li><a href="http://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/6270?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announcements&utm_campaign=6dc38cd878-Mng_and_Com_Apps_5_3_Published&utm_medium=email" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">A Cross-Case Analysis of Possible Facial Emotion Extraction Methods that Could Be Used in Second Life - Pre Experimental Work</a><br>
Shahnaz Kamberi</li></ul></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div>We are also happy to let you know of the following:<br></div><ul><div><li>Our next issue <strong>Assembled (2013) </strong> will be led by JVWR Managing Editor Prof. Yesha Sivan, Metaverse Labs & Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel</li>
</div><li>We just came back from <strong>Orlando Augmented Reality workshop</strong> and are already planning our next major JVWR event – in Milan, Italy. So mark your calendars around December 16-18, 2013 (<a href="http://icis2013.aisnet.org/?utm_source=Journal+of+Virtual+Worlds+Research+Announcements&utm_campaign=6dc38cd878-Mng_and_Com_Apps_5_3_Published&utm_medium=email" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold" target="_blank">http://icis2013.aisnet.org/</a>).</li>
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</div></ul></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div>It is in the spirit of these holidays that we would like to say thank you and best wishes for 2013! May peace, prosperity, and happiness be yours throughout RL and VWs alike.<br>
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