Dan Hunter, Greg Lastowka, Julian Dibbell and Edward Castronova anounce their new shared blog on virtual worlds, Terra Nova.
The purpose of the blog is to report and comment on critical developments in the area of emergent collective reality spaces, aka virtual worlds. Our focus is not on the worlds themselves but on the economic and legal implications of the behavior they generate.
The blog already has some interesting posts, but “emergent collective reality spaces”? What does emergent mean in this context?
In my experience of wishy washy game design jargon, “emergence” almost always means what the speaker would like it to mean, even when (and especially if) they have not founded it with any definition of merit.