The JVWR, Volume 5, No. 2
Published: September 28, 2012
The editorial team for this issue includes:
Kenneth Y T Lim, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Young Hoan Cho, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Michael Vallance, Future University, Hakodate, Japan
In this issue you will find perspectives from East Asia and Southeast Asia; the contrasts and comparisons are at once diverse and revealing – from David Herold’s perspectives on games and gamers from China, to the work of Li and his team with a similar community from Singapore, encompassing several other cultures, sub-cultures and scales of resolution at points in-between.
Original Call: CfP: Asian Perspectives
Managing Editor Corner
East vs. West? More like East and West
Yesha Y. Sivan
Issue Editors’ Corner
Virtual Worlds Asian Perspectives: a Landscape with Peaks and Valleys
Kenneth Y T Lim
Research Papers
Escaping the World: A Chinese Perspective on Virtual Worlds
David Kurt Herold
The Demographic Distribution and Social Experience of Chinese MMO Players
Li Xiong
Hajime Nishimura, Kenneth Y T Lim, Koji Koyamada
Assessment and Learning in the Virtual World: Tasks, Taxonomies and Teaching for Real
Michael Vallance, Stewart M. Martin
Effects of Digital Game Play Among Young Singaporean Gamers: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Study
Dongdong Li, Hyekyung Choo, Angeline Khoo, Albert K. Liau
Assembled (Rush to Press Papers)
Collaboration in Virtual Worlds: The Role of the Facilitator
Benjamin G Wigert, Gert-Jan de Vreede, Imed Boughzala, Ikram Bououd