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Nancy Drew investigates when a middle school girl becomes the target of bullies in an online virtual world.

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Documentary exploring the addictive phenomenom of online virtual worlds such as Ultima Online, Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot and Star Wars Galaxies, featuring interviews with developers, players, scholars and critics.

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The book includes details on how to design and use Second Life content, covering such important skills as building, texturing, scripting, animating, and terraforming and discusses how to create scripts to communicate and interact with the world and manage data.