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	<title>_Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ &#187; Massively Multiplayer Online Environments</title>
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	<description>A working manual discussing the formation and evolution of synthetic environments.</description>
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		<title>_Mobile Augmented Reality_ (Preface)</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/08/16/_mobile-augmented-reality_-preface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augmented Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Augmented Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediated Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Augmented Reality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cyberspace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neuromancer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/?p=1077</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts&#8230; A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>_I am Transreal_: A Reflection On/Of Becoming Dragon [Part 2]</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/08/06/_i-am-transreal_-a-reflection-onof-becoming-dragon-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azdel Slade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediated Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed Reality Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presencing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality Spectrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synthetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User-Generated Content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Variable AFKism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[augmented virtuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[becoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body in transmission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transgender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transreal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am becoming something else. In this moment, this being-in-transition, I am willfully stepping into the unknown. I am between realities. I can only imagine what I want to become, and then choose to become that new thing, but it is radically ungraspable, inconceivable. I can never know the reality of what I am choosing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>_Social Tesseracting_: Part 3</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/07/24/_social-tesseracting_-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/07/24/_social-tesseracting_-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternate Reality Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Augmented Gameplay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Augmented Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Person Shooter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Location-Based Social Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediated Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed Reality Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presencing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality Spectrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking Platforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synthetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User-Generated Content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4chan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Augmented Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality Concepts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;continued&#62; e) Information Deformation: akin to process centering, this Social Tesseraction involves a shift in the very definition of information: Information may be defined as the characteristics of the output of a process, these being informative about the process and the input. This discipline independent definition may be applied to all domains, from physics to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>_Social Tesseracting_: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/03/01/_social-tesseracting_-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2009/03/01/_social-tesseracting_-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augmented Gameplay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Augmented Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking Platforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synthetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WoW]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dimensionality is a concept that attempts to define reality through scientific framing. Dimensionality refers to the theoretical construction and quantification of fundaments. These fundaments, or dimensions, act to define the: …parameterization of the conceptual or visual complexity of any geometric object. In fact, the concept can even be applied to abstract objects which cannot be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>_A Warcry for Birthing Synthetic Worlds_ [Part 3]</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/08/15/_a-warcry-for-birthing-synthetic-worlds_-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/08/15/_a-warcry-for-birthing-synthetic-worlds_-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Azdel Slade</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediated Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Sim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synthetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User-Generated Content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decentralization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linden Labs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[realXtend]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#60;cont&#62; The web was built on openness and designed from the ground up to enable sharing of code &#8211; view the source from early web pages for examples. Yet it seems that already Second Life content creators want strict restrictions on copying, even going so far as to support the DMCA. So, while the DMCA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>_The Salt Satyagraha Online_: A Mixed Reality Project [Part 3]</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/07/25/_the-salt-satyagraha-online_-a-mixed-reality-project-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/07/25/_the-salt-satyagraha-online_-a-mixed-reality-project-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph DeLappe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed Reality Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality Spectrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synthetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gandhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salt March]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Post Reenactment – “Don’t Kill Mr. Gandhi!”: The 240 mile march across Second Life with my treadmill powered Gandhi ended on April 6th, 2008. At the conclusion of the walk, I had a great sense of accomplishment – feeling content and quite frankly looking forward to a much needed rest! I had completed a rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>_The Salt Satyagraha Online_: A Mixed Reality Project [Part 2]</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/07/18/_the-salt-satyagraha-online_-a-mixed-reality-project-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/07/18/_the-salt-satyagraha-online_-a-mixed-reality-project-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph DeLappe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediated Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed Reality Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synthetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Variable AFKism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gandhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reality-Virtuality Spectrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salt March]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the March: The reenactment of Gandhi’s Salt March in Second Life began on the South Western edge of the largest mainland on April 12, 2008. Gandhi’s basic navigational strategy in SL was to walk towards other avatars (represented by green dots on the map), greet them, describe the project, offer to be “friends”, share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>_The Salt Satyagraha Online_: A Mixed Reality Project [Part 1]</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/07/11/_the-salt-satyagraha-online_-a-mixed-reality-project-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/07/11/_the-salt-satyagraha-online_-a-mixed-reality-project-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph DeLappe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediated Reality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mixed Reality Performance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Synthetic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghandi]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/?p=36</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From March 12th to April 6th, 2008, I created a durational performance work entitled “The Salt Satyagraha Online: Gandhi’s March to Dandi in Second Life”. The performance coincided with the 78th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s seminal act of non-violent resistance, The Salt March to Dandi. The original march was made in protest of the Salt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WoW Case Study Part 1: Synthetic Presencing In Action</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/06/20/wow-case-study-part-1-synthetic-presencing-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/06/20/wow-case-study-part-1-synthetic-presencing-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augmented Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corpse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[racial hatred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spiritual intentions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symbol]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bowtox is a low-level World of Warcraft character located on a USA PvP Server. Bowtox has just placed 7 items up for sale in the Ironforge Auction House. He now needs to check his mail at the Bank mailbox. As he runs over the Auction House bridge towards the box, he sees multiple character corpses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Non] Fiction Eclipsing + Synthetic Presencing</title>
		<link>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/06/13/non-fiction-eclipsing-synthetic-presencing/</link>
		<comments>http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/06/13/non-fiction-eclipsing-synthetic-presencing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternate Reality Games]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Massively Multiplayer Online Environments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prosumerism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[amateur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flashmob]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gonzoism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet meme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandboxing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spontaneous engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Streisand Effect]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Entertainment is associated with the concepts of fiction and non-fiction. Fiction involves the projection of a willing suspension of disbelief with variables designed to further narrative progression. Indicators of traditional fiction include characterisation, foregrounding, plot and/or sub-plot[s]. Non-fiction is fiction&#8217;s logical counterpoint; chronology, history and &#8220;fact&#8221; play clear parts in non-fiction constructions. There are many [...]]]></description>
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