Bruce Damer and Stephen Reading

This presentation will feature live journeys into online virtual worlds where ad hoc property and civil rules of conduct are emerging. From avatar citizens pilfering hairstyles and ending up in a moot court to communities and enterprises utilizing franchising and choardic structures, this fascinating corner of the net illustrates
the concept that in Cyberspace, the code is the community.Bruce Damer is a founding director of the Contact Consortium, a key forum and standards body for virtual worlds on the Internet. He is author of Avatars, Addison Wesley Longman (1997) and a featured speaker on social issues in avatar Cyberspace at conferences such as ACM CHI, CSCW, SIGGRAPH, MediARTech, the American Association of Anthropologists and other venues. He has written numerous articles on the subject and appears on radio and television.