Virtual Sociocultural Convergence

1. Introduction: Virtual Sociocultural Convergence
William Sims Bainbridge

2. Technological Determinism in Construction of an Online Society
William Sims Bainbridge

3. Convergence in Online Urban Environments
William Sims Bainbridge

4. Social Organizations in Online Virtual Worlds
William Sims Bainbridge

5. Autonomy Within Rigid Rule-Based Systems
William Sims Bainbridge

6. Modeling Social Stratification in Online Games
William Sims Bainbridge

7. Linguistic Convergence and Divergence in Middle Earth
William Sims Bainbridge

8. Functional Equivalence Across Virtual Cultures
William Sims Bainbridge

9. Individual Incentives for Investment in Gameworlds
William Sims Bainbridge

10. Divergence in the Fall of a Virtual Civilization
William Sims Bainbridge

11. Alienation and Assimilation in a Warcraft World
William Sims Bainbridge

Keywords: Computer Science, Computers and Society, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Personality and Social Psychology, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences