Special issue: Building community in virtual worlds

International Journal of Web Based Communities 7(2) 2011

• Binding the pair: making a historical case for avicentric self-expression within 3D virtual communities
• Experience design for communities in virtual worlds: come for the attraction, stay for the interaction
• Virtual worlds: an environment for cultural sensitivity education in the health sciences
• Building community in 21st century graduate classes through synchronous online research presentations: a case for three-dimensional learning environments
• Skipping Pong and moving straight to World of Warcraft: the challenge of research with complex games used for learning
• Interaction in web-based communities: a case study of Last.fm