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Taking the avatar approximation: throughput social-science in virtual worlds

Published on Sep 26, 20083757 Views

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Taking the Avatar Approximation00:00
Acknowledgements part100:35
Acknowledgements part200:37
September 15, 200501:14
Ebola?02:26
Corrupted Blood02:38
Omaha, Uppsala, Shanghai?02:40
Orgrimmar, Undercity, Stormwind02:43
Earth?02:44
Azeroth02:46
Game - screenshot part102:48
Game - screenshot part203:05
Outline04:09
What is a virtual world?04:21
High-throughput Social Science05:01
“Avatar Approximation” part105:48
“Avatar Approximation” part206:26
“Avatar Approximation” part308:13
“Avatar Approximation” part408:15
Why study WoW? part108:42
Why study Wow? part209:04
This morning!09:43
Why study WoW? "Migration"10:04
Why study WoW? (Program)10:10
Why study WoW? (Program NOT)10:13
Why study WoW? (Program NOT) part210:14
Why study WoW? (Program NOT) part310:38
Why study WoW? Tool in "Paradigm Shift"11:14
Why study WoW? ... Enormous Scope11:34
Why study WoW?... Microscopic Detail11:50
Why study WoW? Simplicity12:33
Thanks to Kaliope of Llane & Crafter’s Tome13:06
(Elias)13:32
Why study WoW?... Replication!13:56
Why study WoW?... Narrative Embedding14:46
Agent Based - "Real" World15:27
Analogies part117:00
Analogies part217:02
Analogies part317:49
Peril18:19
Peril - Quality of Proxy Data part119:11
Peril - Quality of Proxy Data part219:34
Peril - Quality of Proxy Data part320:08
Peril - Quality of Proxy Data part420:19
Peril - Quality of Proxy Data part521:02
Peril - Surveillance21:41
Promise part122:19
Promise part222:50
Promise part323:45
Promise part424:24
Wealth Distribution? part125:04
Wealth Distribution? part226:05
Wealth Distribution? part326:33
Conclusions27:09