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Part of the Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities (ASNOC) Book Series

Featured New Release: New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds

By IGI Global on May 11, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual WorldsMay 11, 2015, Hershey, PA – IGI Global, an international publisher of progressive academic research, is pleased to announce the May release of New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds, a premier reference that provides a coherent account of artistic practices in virtual worlds and considers the contribution the Second Life platform has made in a historical, theoretical, and critical context within the fields of art and technology. This volume is intended for both artists and scholars in the areas of digital art, art and technology, media arts history, virtual worlds, and games studies, as well as a broader academic audience who are interested in the philosophical implications of virtual spaces.

Edited by Denise Doyle (University of Wolverhampton, UK), this resource is part of the Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities (ASNOC) book series, a comprehensive collection that serves as a forum for scholars and practitioners to present comprehensive research on the social, cultural, organizational, and human issues related to the use of virtual communities and social networking. This series will provide an analytical approach to the holistic and newly emerging concepts of online knowledge communities and social networks.

To provide a review for this publication, please contact Ann Lupold, Promotions Coordinator (information below). To evaluate this text for potential course adoption, contact Marketing Coordinator David Meckes at dmeckes@igi-global.com.


About IGI Global: Founded in 1988, IGI Global, headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania (USA), is an innovative international publishing company specializing in the publication of research-based reference works including books, encyclopedias, journals, teaching cases, proceedings, and databases focusing on the subject areas of: engineering, healthcare, business, education, social science, library science, environmental science, public administration, computer science, and the humanities. IGI Global produces high-quality scholarly publications aimed at providing the research community and academic research libraries with reference publications on emerging innovations in diverse fields. For more information about IGI Global, please visit www.igi-global.com/.

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