Social and Ethical Considerations in Virtual Worlds

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The General Public

• 1994 Introduction of the WWW
• 380M users ( 170,000 every day)
• Mobile communications (1B users)
• Online services

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Virtual Worlds

• William Crowthers
• Colossal Cave
• Internets
• Geographic Nature

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Activities in Virtual Worlds

• Gaming
• Addicted to Diablo
• Chat rooms
• Stalking / Cyber-Stalking
• Children and the WWW

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Prevention

• Regulation
• Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA)
• Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)

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Prevention - continued

• email remail
• Yahoo, Hotmail, Msn, google, others
• Character entities
• rwkerbs_at_csupomona.edu
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• Web forms

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Prevention - continued

• Online profiles
• Usenet (newsgroups)
• Web Browsing
• anonymously

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Conclusion