The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse
Peter Ludlow, Mark Wallace, . . MIT, $29.95 (295pp) ISBN 978-0262122948
It shouldn't be a surprise that online virtual communities like Second Life—where recently the hows and whys of having a unicorn baby were all the rage—have their own virtual newspapers and blogs. The very real world constraints such organs have come under, however, may surprise more than a few readers. University of Michigan philosophy professor Peter Ludlow has written and edited various monographs on language and cyberspace; under the name of his online avatar, Urizenus Sklar, Ludlow muckraked within the Sims Online community and was later publisher of
Reviewed on: 12/31/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 295 pages - 978-0-262-51322-7