Author: Tzafnat Shpak

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Privacy Policy JVWR

Effective date: November 21, 2021

JVWR (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://jvwr.net website (the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data that is collected, used and/or otherwise processed by us and/or third parties acting on our behalf, when you apply for, subscribe or receive our Services.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://jvwr.net

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Services to you.You have no legal obligation to provide us with any personal information and doing it is solely based on your free will. However, without the personal information, we will not be able to provide you with our services.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Cookies and Usage Data

Usage Data

We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

  • Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
  • Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

JVWR uses the collected data for the following main purposes:

  • To provide and maintain the Service
  • To provide you with information about our existing and future products and services 
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer care and support
  • To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
  • To monitor the usage of the Service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Your information will not be transferred to advertisers.

If you are located outside Israel and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Israel and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

JVWR will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data

Legal Requirements

JVWR may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of JVWR
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your Rights

You may have the right to review your Personal Data that is stored in our database(s) and request to update or delete it, if it is inaccurate or incorrect, by contacting us at [email protected]. We will act in accordance with applicable law in order to comply with your request. However, we may retain certain Personal Information as deemed required by and/or as otherwise permitted by applicable law. You have the right to withdraw your consent to receive marketing materials, by pressing the “unsubscribe” instructions in the promotional communications you receive.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Social Media

The use of social media is not part of this website and as such, we are not responsible for information, content, terms of use, or privacy policies at these social networks. For more information on the privacy practices of these networks please view the privacy policy of each service provider.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: [email protected].

About JVWR, Home

📢 Important Note on:

Refocusing

As we enter 2022, when the “Metaverse” is blossoming in the POST COVID-19, the JVWR is going into a refocusing process that started in our open forum consultation last year. In the meantime, we are not open for new submissions — we will update the website as soon as we begin accepting papers again.

Please note – we are readjusting the backend.

Assembled & General CfPs, CFPs

CfP: Assembled 2020

A Quick Turnaround Call for Papers – Assembled 2020 issue

Published: July 26, 2020

 
This is a good opportunity for authors seeking a quick turnaround of papers with September 2020 decisions and October 2020 publication.

 

Issue Editors: TBD

 

 

Motivation and Scope

The 2020 Assembled issue is part of the special JVWR Assembled series – a place for various papers on the topic of the journal, collected during the year, and typically published annually.

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original scholarly papers of 3000-5000 words including footnotes, references, and appendices. Interested authors should submit a full paper by the deadline indicated below. All submissions should be made via the JVWR publishing system – see https://jvwr.net/for-authors/ for instructions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published online in Volume 13, Number 3 (2020) of the Journal.

Deadlines and Timetable

August 27, 2020: Authors submit full paper
September 24, 2020: Editors final decision
October 9, 2020: Authors submit final revision
October 23, 2020: Camera-ready
October 30, 2020: Publication

Possible Topics Include:

  • 3D fun
  • Mini robots
  • Social networks that change our mind
  • Artificial limbs
  • New forms of hardware
  • Augmented and mixed environments
  • Wearable
  • User-generated content
  • 3D printing
  • Visual data streaming
  • Immersive technologies
  • Shopping from home
  • Projections of the real
  • Wireless people
  • Portable friends
  • The Internet of Things
  • Virtual currencies
  • E-readers
  • … and more

See past Assembled issues
Assembled 2019
Assembled 2018
…and more

Further Information

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (https://jvwr.net) is an online, open-access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the various disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual worlds research. Virtual worlds ignite a continuously evolving area of study that spans multiple disciplines and the JVWR editorial team looks forward to engaging a wide range of creative and scholarly research.

Anything else? Please contact: [email protected]

Even as we continue to adjust to the “new normals,” we nevertheless wish you all a quick return to healthy normality.


Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan
Editor-in-Chief
 
The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
www.jvwr.net

Call For Editors

Issue editors role includes managing the review process, supervise the final publications, and distribute the news about the release – all using our internal state of the art publishing process

If you have an interest and background in a specific Virtual World sub-field, as well as experience in academic editing, please reply not later than the end of August 2020, to [email protected] with an academic CV and a cover letter listing your target subject, and publishing and editing experience.

If you have colleagues who may be interested in becoming editors or co-editors, please feel free to forward this call further.

More Things You Can Do:

  • Visit The JVWR home page to see how to suggest a topic and become an issue editor.
  • Subscribe to our mailing list (top left of #TheJVWR home page) to receive news and updates (no spam guaranteed.)
  • Connect with us on twitter @TheJVWR and on our Facebook page (TheJVWR).
Events, Events 2020

01-Jul-2020: Let’s Design our Future — a planning meeting of the JVWR community

A Few COVID-19 facts: Oil was selling at a negative price; ZOOM is valued at $50 billion — worth more than the largest 7 airlines combined, and the USA is indeed “great again” at the number of fatalities (over 100K)!

In light of the COVID-19 Black Swan, communities around the world are starting to design their role and future. The JVWR 2000-person strong community is doing the same. Our role was always to facilitate the exchange of novel ideas in the areas of virtual worlds research. The current situation behooves us to act.

On July 1st, we will be gathering over Zoom (webinar format) to strategize our role and future as a community, with an emphasis on our response to COVID-19. The meeting will commence with a presentation by Professor Yesha Sivan on the Three New Normals (3NN) model. We invite you to register to the event.

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

9 AM PST
12 PM EST
5 PM UK

REGISTER NOW

 

Please note that if you are an editor and/or you have responded to our JVWR community call for action, you have received a personalized invitation with a separate email.

For inquiries please contact Ms. Tzafnat Shpak or email us to [email protected]

Original call

 

Past Issues

The Dark Side of Virtual Worlds

The JVWR, Volume 13, No. 1

Published: March 31, 2020

Issue editors:

Angie Cox, Trident University International, Cypress, CA, USA, (Prime)

Felipe Becker Nunes, Antonio Meneghetti College, Santa Maria, RS – Brazil

Miao Feng, NORC at the University of Chicago, USA

Oskar Milik, Northwood University, Midland, MI, U.S.A

The Journal of Virtual World Research’s “The Dark Side” issue dives into some fascinating ideas about how evil is represented in the virtual worlds of digital games. This issue includes five articles elaborating on the motivations for evil acts and their outcomes, hostile competitiveness, classification of deviant leisure, how immoral acts are determined, and our ability to thwart these cruel activities in the virtual environments and games.

The name of this special issue, “The Dark Side” is purposeful. It takes a critical look at the things we consider evil within virtual worlds. These five manuscripts address the types of activities that constitute evil, the rationale and intentions for these actions, and the impacts of these malicious events.

When we started planning the “Dark Side of Virtual Worlds” issue last year, NO ONE IMAGINED that humanity would be in ONE OF ITS DARKEST times – the age of COVID-19. Consequently, and of special interest to our JVWR (Journal of Virtual Worlds Research) community, much of human activity, be it meeting your parents or kids, taking a course or learning a new skill, or hanging with friends or colleagues – is virtual.

Virtual technologies, theory and practice, are now core. Thus, our JVWR community is called upon to provide guidance, and we are required to collectively think and do.

Original call: Dark Side Special Issue

Editor-In-Chief Corner

Rising to the Challenge of Virtual in the Age of COVID-19: The Macro Framework of Three New Normals (3NN)

Yesha Y. Sivan

Issue Editors’ Corner

Editorial – The Dark Side of Virtual Worlds

Angie Marie Cox

Peer Reviewed Research Papers

Beyond Evil and Good in Online Gaming. An Analysis of Violence in ‘Overwatch’ Between Demonization and Proactive Values

Enrico Gandolfi, Francesca Antonacci

Toxic Teammates or Obscene Opponents? Influences of Cooperation and Competition on Hostility between Teammates and Opponents in an Online Game

Dave McLean, Frank Waddell, James Ivory

Destruction as Deviant Leisure in EVE Online

Kelly Bergstrom

The Griefer and the Stalker: Disruptive Actors in a Second Life Educational Community

Jean-Paul Lafayette DuQuette

Artificial Beings Worthy of Moral Consideration in Virtual Environments: An Analysis of Ethical Viability

Stefano Gualeni

Events, Events 2020

6..10-Jan-2020, Las Vegas, USA: DreamlandXR

 

DreamlandXR combines MUSIC + TECHNOLOGY + E-SPORTS

When: 6-10 January 2020

Where: Las Vegas

DreamlandXR features four days of top-rated XR future tech events and EDM music programming on the Las Vegas Strip during CES®.

DREAMLANDXR is dedicated to driving transformative changes in the immersive technology industry that perpetuate the expansion of the medium for both developers and consumers alike.

It’s the proving ground for transformative tech such as 5G connectivity, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, smart cities, sports, robotics and more.

CES® 2020 Is the Global Stage for Innovation
CES is the largest and most influential technology event on the planet. Every major and emerging industry is represented, the entire technology ecosystem gathered together in one place to conduct business.

 

Past Issues

Assembled 2019

The JVWR, Volume 12, No. 3

Published: December 13, 2019

JVWR Assembled 2019 cover Vol 12 No 3

Issue editors:

Angie Cox, Trident University International, Cypress, CA, USA, (Prime)

Felipe Becker Nunes, Antonio Meneghetti College, Santa Maria, RS – Brazil

Miao Feng, NORC at the University of Chicago, USA

Jason Coley, Maria College, Albany, New York, USA

The Journal of Virtual World Research Assembled 2019 issue, presents six striking studies that spread over a plethora of subjects, all aimed to expand the Virtual World knowledge bank for the benefit of practitioners and academics alike. These studies broaden the understanding of a Virtual World user’s experience associated with presence and immersion, governance within the worlds, learning success mechanisms, as well as users’ interactions and relationships. Each of these topics provides traction in obtaining the highest advances in the application of Virtual Worlds within society.

Original call: CfP – Assembled 2019

Issue Editors’ Corner

Editorial Assembled 2019

Angie Marie Cox, Felipe Becker Nunes, Miao Feng, Jason Coley

Peer-Reviewed Research Papers


User Characteristics, Trait vs. State Immersion, and Presence in a First-Person Virtual World

Lynna J. Ausburn, Jon Martens, Charles E. Baukal, Jr., Ina Agnew, Robert Dionne, Floyd B. Ausburn


Augmented Reality Plant & Animal Cells: Design and Evaluation of an Educational Augmented Reality Application

Malek El Kouzi, Omar Bani-Taha, Victoria McArthur


Extending the self: Player-avatar relations and presence among U.S. and Chinese gamers

Zhenyang Luo, David Westerman, Jaime Banks


GaeltechVR: Measuring the Impact of an Immersive Virtual Environment to Promote Situated Identity in Irish Language Learning

Naoise Collins, Brian Vaughan, Charlie Cullen, Keith Gardner


Fast Cars and Fast Learning: Using Virtual Reality to Learn Literacy and Numeracy in Prison

Jimmy McLauchlan, Helen Farley


The Proto-Governance of Minecraft Servers

Louis Rolfes, Kathrin Passig

CFPs, Topical Issues CfPs

Dark Side Special Issue

Call for Papers & Editors

Published: 27 October 2019

Evils within virtual worlds

Evil – the intentions, motivations, forces or actions with malevolence, immorality, badness, wrongness, or harmfulness which are inflicted against humanity.  How do evil and darkness manifest themselves in virtual worlds? This is the topic of this special issue.

The Dark Side issue is for papers highlighting the interesting topic of how, why, and in what ways Augmented and Virtual Worlds are associated with so-called evil or wickedness or with dark intentions.

Authors and researchers keen on this subject are invited to submit directly to the ‘Dark Side’ issue and should do so by adding the words “submitted for the Dark Side” in the “Comments for Editor” on the 1st step of the submission process.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Evil or dark behaviors
  • Concepts of evil
  • Immorality
  • Corruption
  • Malevolence
  • Motives
  • Intentions
  • Forces

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original scholarly papers of 3000-5000 words including footnotes, references, and appendices. Interested authors should submit a full paper by the deadline indicated below. All submissions should be made via the JVWR publishing system – see https://jvwr.net/for-authors/ for instructions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published online in Volume 13, Number 1 (2020) of the Journal.

Deadlines and Timetable

November 15, 2019: Authors submit full papers
December 20, 2019: Editors final decision
January 25, 2020: Authors submit final revision
February 25, 2020: Camera-ready
March 2020: Publication

Login and submit here.

Editors

The JVWR (the Journal for Virtual Worlds Research) is also looking for 1-3 co-editors (you can join as a group) to lead the Dark Side issue (2020) due for publication in 2020 Q1.

The issue editors role includes assigning reviews, supporting the publication process, and communication throughout.

If you have an interest and background in this area please send your CV and supporting documents to [email protected]

Based on 10-15 submissions you will:

  • Review and decide on full papers.
  • Coordinate with reviewers.
  • Use our publication system and tools— extensively (be also versed with Google docs, Skype, Zoom, and other current tools.)
  • Be a deadline-targeted & an organized person.
  • Get academic credit as an editor.