The Oxford handbook of virtuality / edited by Mark Grimshaw.

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The virtuality and reality of avatar cyberspace / Bruce Damer & Randy Hinrichs
The physical and social reality of virtual worlds / Philip Brey
Envisioning the virtual / Brian Massumi
Being more than yourself : virtuality and human spirit / André Nusselder
Mythologies of virtuality : "other space" and "shared dimension" from ancient myths to cyberspace / Maria Beatrice Bittarello
The paradox of virtuality / Michael R. Heim
Psychology & perception
Avatar psychology / James K. Scarborough & Jeremy N. Bailenson
Not quite human : what virtual characters have taught us about person perception / Elizabeth J. Carter & Frank E. Pollick
Emotions and altered states of awareness : the virtuality of reality and the reality of virtuality / Jean-Claude Martin
Applying psychological plausibility to the uncanny valley phenomenon / Angela Tinwell
The psychology of addiction to virtual / Deborah Abdel Nabi & John P. Charlton
Environments : the allure of the virtual self
Being present in a virtual world / Giuseppe Riva & John A. Waterworth
Immersion in virtual worlds / Gordon Calleja
Culture & society
Communication in virtual worlds / Paul C. Adams
Virtual reality : so good, they named it twice? : a Lacanian perspective from literature and the other arts
/ david rudd
History and cultural heritage in virtual environments / Erik Champion
Flirting, cheating, dating, and mating in a virtual world / Julie M. Albright & Eddie Simmons
Cybersex / Ståle Stenslie
A virtual assembly : constructing religion out of zeros and ones / Robert M. Geraci
Acoustemologies of the closet / William Cheng
Sound
Breaking the fourth wall? : user-generated sonic content in virtual worlds / Karen Collins
Sonic virtuality : understanding audio in a virtual world / Tom A. Garner & Mark Grimshaw
Virtual worlds : an ethnomusicological perspective / Trevor S. Harvey
The music that's not there
Image
Through the looking glass : philosophical reflections on the art of virtual
Worlds / Gary Zabel
Recreating visual reality in virtuality / Anthony Steed
The translation of art in virtual worlds / Patrick Lichty
Painting, the virtual and the celluloid frame / Simon J. Harris
Economy & law
Virtual law / Greg Lastowka
Avatars inc. : the legal personality of avatars / Angela Adrian
Virtuality in the sphere of economics / Vili Lehdonvirta
A-life & artificial intelligence
On the role of "digital actors" in entertainment-based virtual worlds / Phil Carlisle
Evolution in virtual worlds / Tim Taylor
Virtual ecologies and environments / David G. Green & Tom Chandler
Computational modeling of brain function and the human haptic system at the neural spike level : learning the dynamics of a simulated body / Gabriel Robles-De-La-Torre
Technology & applications
Distributed embodiment : real presence in virtual bodies / John A. Waterworth & Eva L. Waterworth
Level of realism : feel, smell and taste in virtual environments / Alan Chalmers
Developing handheld augmented reality interfaces / Mark Billinghurst, Huidong Bai, Gun Lee, Robert Lindeman
Avoidable pitfalls in virtual world learning design / Keysha I. Gamor
Clinical uses of virtual worlds : from medicine to psychology and rehabilitation / Giuseppe Riva
Military simulations using virtual worlds / Roger Smith
Utopia & dystopia
Ethics at the boundaries of the virtual / Charles M. Ess
The social imaginary of virtual worlds / Patrice Flichy
Virtuality and humanity / David Kreps
Virtual dystopia / Andrea Hunter & Vincent Mosco
Afterword / Tom Boellstorf
Index.