Session Ten Summary:
What's on the Net

There was no guest speaker for this session. JZ demonstrated a series of web sites that students might find useful as they finished their research projects. For example, he showed "The Lost Library of MOO," a collection of social science scholarship about the dynamics of online virtual environments. He then demonstrated a live MOO (MUD object oriented); a MOO is like a souped-up chat room in which participants can converse with each other, manipulate virtual objects, and create (by programming the software that underlies the space) their own objects—books, animals, robots, anything.

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