Second Reading Report

According to Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace in the chapter 5 “Dollars and Cyberspace” in the book “The Second Life Herald” in 2007, page 59 to 79, the virtual world can made real money by several ways, and people who bought virtual money by real money use it to build something or to make something in the cyberspaces (Ludlow & Wallace, 2007, p.59). The authors state that there are group of people who are working on the virtual world by selling virtual items to the real money (Ludlow & Wallace, 2007, p.60-65). Moreover, game companies also earning money from that help people to feel more succeed in the virtual world which is unfair for other users (Ludlow & Wallace, 2007, p.65). In the article, Ludlow say that people are paying money to” build, furnish, and decorate” (Ludlow & Wallace, 2007, p.66-68) their virtual house, and this is only an example from one virtual gaming world. In fact, there are a lot of more factors to make people paying money on the cyberspace (Ludlow & Wallace, 2007, p.69-77). The writers also claim that there are “at least ten million people” (Ludlow & Wallace, 2007, p.78) play around in one or more virtual worlds, and this number is increasing every year (Ludlow & Wallace, 2007, p.78).