[Air-L] Virtual worlds as not just a new medium

[CarrieLynn D. Reinhard]

Hello everyone,

I am hoping you could give me some ideas about where to find citations to 
finish a book chapter.

A reviewer said of my book chapter, in which I am arguing for how study 
users' reception of virtual worlds, the following:

"as you well know many scholars oppose this view of VWs as just another 
medium. our chapter might benefit from looking at those scholars that defend VWs 
are more than just a new medium." Apparently I do not well know this because I 
do not know exactly who to cite. 

Who are the scholars who are opposing this view that VWs is just another 
medium? Specifically, I was arguing that we cannot treat virtual worlds as 
wholly unique experiences of reception because it is a "new medium".  Are there 
others out there saying the same thing, only I have horrendously overlooked 
them?
 CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, PhD
Virtual Worlds Research Group
http://worlds.ruc.dk/
Roskilde University
Department of Communication, Business, and Information Technologies
Building 43.3 
Kommunikationsvej 1 
DK-4000 Roskilde
mbl: + 2280 5128


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might unwittingly hurt someone we love." - CDR 9/20/02