Virtual Environments: Is one life enough?

The Reading Lists for this module are made up of peer-reviewed journal articles, books and other publications (that have not been through a recognised academic quality assurance process but which contain useful information to support you on a practical level) such as blogs, videos and websites.

The list is divided between essential reading and additional reading. You must engage with the Essential Reading material so that you can take part fully in class discussions. Specific Reading Lists for each week will be given again in the class descriptions so you know when to study them.

The Additional Reading list contains suggestions for deeper exploration of the topics explored in class so that you can delve into deeper study on issues that you might find particularly interesting.

The list is presented here alphabetically.

Essential Reading

• [BBC Newsnight]. (2016, January 11). David Bowie speaks to Jeremy Paxman (1999). [Video file]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg.
• Bruns, A. (2007, December 31). Produsage: A Working Definition. [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from http://produsage.org/produsage
• Bruns, A. (2007, December 31). Produsage, Key Principles. [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from http://produsage.org/node/11
• Centre for the New Economy and Society. (2018). The Future of Jobs Report. World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-future-of-jobs-report-2018
• Chalmers, D. (2014, March). How do you Explain Consciuosness? [Video file]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness
• Costa, D. (2016, February 5). 5 Steps to Build a Productive and Tight-Knit Remote Team. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://tech.co/news/5-steps-build-productive-tight-knit-remote-team-2016-02
• Dennett, D. (2016, September 6). What is the Nature of Personal Identity? Closer To Truth. [Video file]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE6CNETNJvk
• Desta, Y. (2014, November 10). The Lazy Person’s Guide to Personal Branding. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://mashable.com/2014/11/10/personal-branding-lazy-guide/?europe=true#2Qra4IOJhGqU
• Dreamscape, D. (2015, February 27). Class 5: Virtual Ability Island. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://virtualenvironmentsmodule.com/2015/02/27/class-5-virtual-ability-island/
• Edwards, L.E. (2015). What is the Anthropocene? EOS. [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://eos.org/opinions/what-is-the-anthropocene
• Elliot, L. (2018, September 28). TUC Wants Clampdown on ‘Poverty Pay’ in Gig Economy Jobs. The Guardian. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/28/tuc-wants-clampdown-on-poverty-pay-in-gig-economy-jobs
• Ellis, E. (2016). Involve Social Scientists in Defining the Anthropocene. Nature 540 192-193. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.nature.com/news/involve-social-scientists-in-defining-the-anthropocene-1.21090
• Fitzgerald, M. (2007, February 1). How I Did It: Philip Rosedale, CEO, Linden Lab. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.inc.com/magazine/20070201/hidi-rosedale.html
• Griffin, M. (n.d.) How to Write a Killer About Me Page for your Blog. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.melyssagriffin.com/about-me-page-blog/
• Hyder, S. (2014, August 18). 7 Things You Can Do to Build an Awesome Personal Brand. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/shamahyder/2014/08/18/7-things-you-can-do-to-build-an-awesome-personal-brand/#1ad67df93c3a
• Kramer, L. (2021, November 9). Our 8-Step Guide for How to Write a Pro Blog Post. [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-a-blog/
  (Reading time 5 minutes)
• Le Guin, U.K. (2015). The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. In The Wind’s Twelve Quarters. (pp. 254-262). London: Gollancz. (Original work published 1973). Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
• McLuhan, M. (1977, June 27). Marshall McLuhan Full Lecture: The Medium is the Message. ABC Radio National Australia. [Video file]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaH51F4HBw
  Part 2 and Part 3to continue with questions and answers.
• Meister, J. (2012, August 14). The Future of Work: Job Hopping is the ‘New Normal’ for Millennials. Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2012/08/14/the-future-of-work-job-hopping-is-the-new-normal-for-millennials/#3ec89fea13b8
• Millennial Dollar Club. (2020, January 6). [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://millennialdollarclub.com/how-to-write-a-blog-post/
• Mineo, G. (2017, December 11). How to Easily Create a SlideShare Presentation. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-create-slideshare-presentation-free-template-ht
• Myers, J. (2016, August 31). What is the Anthropocene? And why does it matter? [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/08/what-is-the-anthropocene-and-why-does-it-matter/
• O’Connor, J. (2017, November 26). A Word about Copyright. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://virtualenvironmentsmodule.com/2017/11/26/a-word-about-copyright/
• O’Connor, J. (2017, March 8). Class 5: Virtual Ability [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://virtualenvironmentsmodule.com/2017/03/08/class-5virtual-ability/
• Orendorff, A. (2016, April 27). 10 Rules of Professional Etiquette for the Digital Workplace. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://lifehacker.com/10-rules-of-professional-etiquette-for-the-digital-work-1770329574
• Ribble, M. (2017). Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship. [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from http://www.digitalcitizenship.net/nine-elements.html
• Ripple, WJ. Wolf, C. Newsome, TM. Galetti, M. Alamgir, M. Crist, E. Mahmoud, MI. Laurance, WF. 15,364 scientist signatories from 184 countries. (2017). World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice. BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 12, 1 December 2017, Pages 1026–1028. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/12/1026/4605229
• [Second Life Community]. (2018, July 19). Uploading assets. [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/uploading-assets-r75/
• [Smithsonian]. (2013). What is the Anthropocene? [Video file]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/science/what-is-the-anthropocene/?jwsource=cl
• Special Report. (2016). The Impact on Jobs: Automation and Anxiety. The Economist.Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.economist.com/special-report/2016/06/25/automation-and-anxiety (Alternative Source for PDF edition.)
• Stiegler, B. (2018, September 22). Too Late? The Final Warning. Work Marathon 2018, Serpentine Galleries London.[Video File]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLLrFzV6gBibfuelIMnRi8Np3W1at63WRq&time_continue=2&v=EsGVN7UE0pw
• Totilo, S. (2012, October 23). Forget Playing Games. Meet the Man Who Wants to Empower You to Make Games. [Blog post.] Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://kotaku.com/5954128/forget-playing-games-everyone-needs-to-make-games
• V. (2011, October 29). Painfully Coming to Grips with The Medium is the Message. [Blog post]. Retrieved, 2021, February 2,from https://virtualworldnmfsfall11.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/painfully-coming-to-grips-with-the-medium-is-the-message/
• Warburton, N. (2015, January 27). Has Technology Changed Us? The Medium is the Message. [Video File]. BBC with the Open University. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko6J9v1C9zE
• [WikiHow]. (2017, December 16). How to Build in Second Life. [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.wikihow.com/Build-in-Second-Life
• Wikipedia contributors. (2018, November 29). Digital Citizen. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_citizen&oldid=871135017
• Wujec, T. (2010). Build a Tower, Build a Team. [Video file]. Retreived 2021, February 2, from https://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower

Additional Reading

• APA Style Guide. (n.d.) [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.apastyle.org
• Asimov, I. (1956). [Website]. The Last Question. Retrieved from http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
  Audio version on YouTubeof this short story.
• Carroll, S. Gleiser, M. Wallace, A. (2017, February 16). The Nature of Reality: A Dialogue Between a Buddhist Scholar and a Theoretical Physicist. [Video file]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from ICE at Dartmouth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLbSlC0Pucw
• Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide. (n.d.) [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from The Chicago Manual of Style Online https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
• Comor, E. (2011). Contextualising and Critiquing the Fantastic Prosumer: Power, Alienation and Hegemony. Critical Sociology 37(3). (309-327). Retrieved, 2021, February 2, from https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=fimspub
• Davis, D. (2018, March 14). Our Digital Selves: What we learn about ability from avatars. [Blog post.] Retrieved 2021, February 2, from Platypus http://blog.castac.org/2018/03/ability-avatars/
• Hayes, M. (2018, October 18). Taking on the Mounting Challenge of Climate Change. The Irish Times. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/taking-on-the-mounting-challenge-of-climate-change-1.3663266
• Hongladarom, S. (2011). Personal Identity, the Self and the Online World. Bangkok, Thailand: Chulalongkorn University Rajadipiseksompoj Fund. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://brightspace.tudublin.ie/content/enforced/6944-CAT-DSCA_THSO2001_2018/PDF%20docs/Personal%20Identity%20the%20Self%20and%20the%20Online%20World.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=a2UKgc1wsSIVwx8FItZWJhbhO&ou=6944&_&d2lSessionVal=a2UKgc1wsSIVwx8FItZWJhbhO&ou=6944
• Madonna, S. (2017, October 27). Team Operations Tips. [SlideShare slides]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.slideshare.net/sitearm/team-operations-tips-iole-autumn-2017-81294902
• Miroshnichenko, A. (2016). Extrapolating on McLuhan: How Media Environments of the Given, the Represented, and the Induced Shape and Reshape Our Sensorium. Philosophies 2016(1), 170–189. DOI:10.3390/philosophies1030170. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://virtualenvironmentsmodule.files.wordpress.com/2021/01/extrapolating-on-mcluhan-paper.pdf
• Newitz, A. (2006, September 1). Your Second Life is Ready. [Blog post.] Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-09/your-second-life-ready
• Olson, E.T. (2015, July 9). Personal Identity. In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/
• O’Connor, J. (2017, May 17). Digital Utopia: the show. [Blog post]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://virtualenvironmentsmodule.com/2017/05/17/digital-utopia-the-show/
• [Radboud Reflects]. (2016, June 27). Welcome to the Anthropocene | Debate with philosophers Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler. [Video file]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETHOqqKluC4&feature=youtu.be
• Stenvaag, S. (2012, October 27). Virtual Anthropology and Prometheus Myth: where is the connection? [Blog post.] Retrieved 2021, February 2, from http://www.virtualworldsmagazine.com/virtual-antropology-and-prometheus-myth-where-is-the-connection/
• Stiegler, B. Automatic Society 1: The Future of Work. (D. Ross, Trans.). La Deleuziana – Online Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 2421-3098 No. 1/2015 – Crisis of the European Biopolitics. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Stiegler.pdf
• The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University. (n.d.) [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
• Voelker-Morris, R&J. (2007). The Heron Sanctuary: An interview with Gentle Heron. Culture Work ISSN 1541-938X. Retrieved February 2, 2021 from https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/5433/culturework_heronsanctuary_index.pdf?sequence=1
• Virtual Ability. (n.d.). [Website]. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://virtualability.org/

Three Novels

These novels  have inspired or been inspired by Second Life and the metaverse.

• Cline, E. (2011). Ready player one.Random House. New York. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.worldcat.org/title/ready-player-one/oclc/1023617629&referer=brief_results (This novel is said to have inspired the next development of Second Life.)
• Gibson, W. (1984). Neuromancer. New York. Ace Books. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.worldcat.org/title/neuromancer/oclc/24379880 (This novel must have influenced Second Life, and indeed inspired Snow Crash.)
• Stephenson, N. (1992). Snow crash.New York, Bantam Books. Retrieved 2021, February 2, from https://www.worldcat.org/title/snow-crash/oclc/25026617 (This novel is credited with inspiring Linden Labs’ Philip Rosedale to develop Second Life.)