Table of contents

Foreword: Sherry Turkle
Introduction: From the Faraway Nearby - Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik

Poem - Brian Clements
PART I: Concepts and Contexts

• Chapter 1: Finding One's Own in Cyberspace - Amy Bruckman
• Chapter 2: Not Just a Game: The Personal, Social, and Political Impact of MOO - Pavel Curtis
• Chapter 3: The Contact No-Zone: Real Politics, Real Pedagogy, and Virtual Space - Beth Kolko
• Chapter 4: @Create: Renderings of the Social Construction of MOOs - Jan Rune Holmevik

• Chapter 5: How to use a MOO - Jorge Barrios and Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs
• Chapter 6: MOO educational tools - Ken Schweller
• Chapter 7: Taking the MOO by the Horns - Jan Rune Holmevik and Mark Blanchard
• Chapter 8: Day-to-Day MOO administration - Shawn Wilbur

• Chapter 9: Intelligent Classrooms: Enhancing Pedagogical Reality with MOOs - Cynthia Haynes
• Chapter 10: At Home in the MUD: Writing Centers Learn to Wallow - Eric Crump
• Chapter 11: Defending Your Life in MOOspace, and Other Stories of Academia on the Electronic Edge - Dene Grigar and John Barber
• Chapter 12: 'The Plays the Thing': Theatricality in the MOO Environment - Juli Burk

• Chapter 13: Entering the Fold - Victor Vitanza
• Chapter 14: Laughter and/in Learning: A Narco-Analysis - Diane Davis
• Chapter 15: Songs of Thy Selves: Persistence, Momentariness, Recurrence and the MOO - Michael Joyce

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