The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://jvwresearch.org) is soliciting “think pieces” in response to the following questions:
“In thinking about the spaces of virtual worlds, and the practices we witness within them, how can we define what counts as culture? Can we see any common cultural trends emerging in different virtual worlds, or are practices as disparate [...]
So it’s the end of another busy semester. Life’s been really good lately. Thank God I’ve been productive — submitting papers to conferences, submitting job applications, writing, desiging, coding.. also setting aside time for important things – e.g. time with family, close friends, and my wonderful girlfriend. I finished designing and coding one of the games [...]
I’m leaving tomorrow for the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS ‘08) at Utrecht, the Netherlands. This conference is held every other year, and it’s always very high quality. I got accepted into the Doctoral Consortium, which is an exciting opportunity to network and meet up with more senior scholars and other doctoral students from [...]
A recent Time Magazine article reports the work of Jeremy Bailenson and Nick Yee, both at Stanford University. It’s a pretty interesting piece that discusses the implications of what Nick Yee elsewhere termed the “Proteus Effect” — that is, how avatars (qualities acquired online and conforming to expected behaviors of the avatar) can change how people [...]
Assistant Professor of Technology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Click here to download my curriculum vita (PDF format, updated 3-3-10).
Contact me via email: JLEE @ tc dot columbia dot edu.