{"id":240,"date":"2008-09-01T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T10:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-09-01T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T10:44:12","slug":"the-real-world-doesnt-exist-nor-do-virtual-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/01\/the-real-world-doesnt-exist-nor-do-virtual-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"The real world doesn&#8217;t exist (nor do virtual ones)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pointed out by <a href=\"http:\/\/sulka.net\">Sulka<\/a>, this essay: <a href=\"http:\/\/virtual-economy.org\/files\/Lehdonvirta-VWDE.pdf\">http:\/\/virtual-economy.org\/files\/Lehdonvirta-VWDE.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI suggest that researchers ask themselves the following questions to ensure their work is relevant to their aims: <\/p>\n<p>1) Out of all social world sites and technologies, why am I focusing on MMOs?<br \/>\n2) Out of all possible interaction modalities, am I justified in limiting my<br \/>\nobservations to the MMO server?<br \/>\n3) Do my results concern MMOs in general, a specific MMO, or some completely<br \/>\ndifferent category? <\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of good answers to all three questions, but \u201cMMOs are like virtual<br \/>\nversions of the real world\u201d is not among them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointed out by Sulka, this essay: http:\/\/virtual-economy.org\/files\/Lehdonvirta-VWDE.pdf I suggest that researchers ask themselves the following questions to ensure their work is relevant to their aims: 1) Out of all social world sites and technologies, why am I focusing on MMOs? 2) Out of all possible interaction modalities, am I justified in limiting my observations to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}