Definition The Metaverse is the post-reality universe, a perpetual and persistent multiuser
environment merging physical reality with digital virtuality. It is based on the convergence of …

Cyberbullying may be one of the “diseases” of the 21th Century. Despite efforts to curtail its
incidence and prevalence over the past 20 years, its direct and indirect harmful effects have …

We are witnessing a growing concern around the impact of hyper-realistic synthetic media
and its dissemination in what is widely known as" deepfakes." However, the phenomenon's …

Since the inception of Bitcoin, a plethora of distributed ledgers differing in design and
purpose has been created. While by design, blockchains provide no means to securely …

Toxic behaviors in online gaming such as flaming and harassment have been gaining
attention from the research community, yet little consensus has formed about what …

User contributions in the form of posts, comments, and votes are essential to the success of
online communities. However, allowing user participation also invites undesirable behavior …

In this work we explore cyberbullying and other toxic behavior in team competition online
games. Using a dataset of over 10 million player reports on 1.46 million toxic players along …

The life-like collaborative potential offered by virtual worlds (VWs) has sparked significant
interest for companies to experiment with VWs in order to organize convenient, cost-effective …

Toxicity in online environments is a complex and a systemic issue. Esports communities
seem to be particularly suffering from toxic behaviors. Especially in competitive esports …

Previous studies on social virtual world (SVW) continuance have suggested that satisfaction,
which promotes SVW continuance intention, is determined by three types of perceived …