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What is Open System

Chapter 22
Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics
A platform that has one or more of the following technical attributes: • Contains tools created to support user content creation • Provides help, tutorial or other documentation to assist users with content creation• Allows users to import content they’ve created with another application • Offers TOS or EULAs that explicitly permit user-created content and distribution • Allows users to retain ownership (intellectual property rights) of their creations • Enables emergent behavior (rule changes, new in-world avatar roles, non-game focused gatherings, and more) • Provides client source code to encourage programmers to modify the underlying code itself, changing the product in profound ways and perhaps to look and function very differently than originally intended. (Salen 2003)
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Machinima in Second Life
Stephany Filimon (Linden Lab, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-352-4.ch022
Abstract
This chapter provides a brief history of machinima, films created by computer users within virtual worlds, and focuses on machinima produced within the social virtual world of Second Life, on how to create machinima in Second Life, and on highlighting select examples of Second Life machinima. This chapter also connects user-produced content, like machinima, with the openness and rules of the platforms in which content is created. The chapter concludes with a brief overview of legal thinking surrounding user-created content, including machinima, and points to the rise of the player-producer in these systems.
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Chapter 642
Virtual Work, Trust and Rationality
Any system without strong boundaries, where information and other goods flow to and from the system’s environment.
Published in Chapter: Virtual Work, Trust and Rationality; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Socio-Technical Theory and Work Systems in the Information Age
A system that sustains its equilibrium with and through its interactions with its relevant environment
Published in Chapter: Socio-Technical Theory and Work Systems in the Information Age; From: Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
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Education from the Enlightenment to the Globalization
A system that regularly exchanges feedback with its external environment.
Published in Chapter: Education from the Enlightenment to the Globalization; From: Handbook of Research on Applied Learning Theory and Design in Modern Education
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