In recent years, there has been much interest in the 'virtual' teams, organizations and communities in management research and practice. As technology and social practices change we have more opportunity to experience different forms of virtuality, and in the process our understanding and conception of virtuality changes.

Interest in Virtual Worlds is huge, this is very topical Written by two internationally recognized authorities in the field, with expert contributions Very little competing material, presented in a rigorous yet accessible way

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NIKI PANTELI is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Director for the Centre for Information Management at the University of Bath, UK and the Chair of the IFIP W.G. 9.5 'Virtuality& Society'.

MIKE CHIASSON is currently a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University's Management School, in the Department of Management Science. Before joining Lancaster University, he was an Associate Professor in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary from 1999 to 2006, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.

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In recent years, there has been much interest in the 'virtual' -teams, organizations and communities -in management research and practice. As technology and social practices change we have more opportunity to experience different forms of virtuality, and in the process our understanding and conception of virtuality changes.

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Rethinking Virtuality: N.Panteli & M.Chiasson
PART I: VIRTUALITY WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS
Socialization in a Global Context: Lessons from Dispersed Teams; I.Oshri, J.Kotlarsky & L.Willcocks
Shared Communication Practices and Mental Models in the Virtual Work Environment; K.M.Chudoba & *M.Watson-Manheim

• Building Virtual Cooperation: Guidelines for Effective Performance; V.Weems-Landingham
  Virtuality in Organizational Team Environments: Concept, Measurement and Effects in the Context of Sustainable Management; C.Schmidt, B.K.Temple, A.McCready, J.Newman & S.C.Kinzler
  Regulated and Emergent Identifications in Virtual Organization; L.Yan
  Reconciling Visions and Realities of Virtual Working: Findings from the UK Chemicals Industry; P.Dunning Lewis & *M.Katsorchi-Hayes
• Virtuality of Teams: Extending Boundaries and Discontinuities; K.Dixon & N.Panteli
  PART II: VIRTUALITY BEYOND ORGANIZATIONS
  Building Social Identity through Blogging; P.Pluempavarn & N.Panteli
  Playing Together in Cyberspace: Collective Action and Shared Meaning Constitution in Virtual Worlds; A.Papargyris & *A.Poulymenakou
• Luminal Possibilities for the Study of Virtual Systems, Global Effects and Local Practices; M.Chiasson
  Virtuality: Time, Space, Consciousness and a Second Life; *D.Kreps
• TheVirtual and Virtuality:Toward Dialogues of Transdisciplinarity; J.Hunsinger
  Is Everything Virtuality? Exploring the Boundaries of the Topics; M.Chiasson & N.Panteli