The JVWR, Volume 3, No. 2
Published: December 14, 2010
The editorial team for this issue includes:
Sun Sun Lim, National University of Singapore
Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Denver, USA
Virtual worlds have made notable inroads into the lives of children, affording online extensions of their offline lives. In this article, we propose a conceptual framework for understanding the space that virtual worlds occupy in children’s play and the ways in which children’s participation in them overlap with their everyday play experiences, both offline and mediated.
Issue Editors Corner
Virtual worlds as a site of convergence for children’s play
Sun Sun Lim, Lynn Schofield Clark
Peer Reviewed Research Papers
Lizzy Bleumers, An Jacobs
Virtual Epidemics as Learning Laboratories in Virtual Worlds
Yasmin B. Kafai, Nina H. Fefferman
Who’s Watching Your Kids? Safety and Surveillance in Virtual Worlds for Children
Eric M. Meyers, Lisa P. Nathan, Kristene Unsworth
Andra Siibak, Kristi Vinter
A Framework for Children’s Participatory Practices in Virtual Worlds
Terhi Tuukkanen, Ahmer Iqbal, Marja Kankaanranta
Research-in-brief papers
Penguin Life: A Case Study of One Tween’s Experiences inside Club Penguin
Diana Burley
Virtual Junk Food Playgrounds in Europe: Advergames in the UK and Hungary
Arhlene A. Flowers, Katalin Lustyik, Emese Gulyás
“Think Pieces”
Growing Up with Neopets: A Personal Case-Study
Stephanie Louise Lu
