William Sims Bainbridge
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Sims Bainbridge is an American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Cyber-Human Systems at the National Science Foundation . He is the first Senior Fellow to be appointed by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Bainbridge is most well known for his work on the sociology of religion. Recently he has published work studying the sociology of video gaming.
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Published Works
- The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds (2007) (900)
- The future of religion: Secularization, revival, and cult formation (1980) (794)
- Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science (2003) (650)
- Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance (2003) (607)
- Societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology (2001) (536)
- The Restructuring of American Religion (2021) (518)
- A Theory of Religion (1987) (461)
- Networks of Faith: Interpersonal Bonds and Recruitment to Cults and Sects (1980) (358)
- Societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology: Maximizing human benefit (2005) (250)
- Religion, deviance, and social control (1997) (193)
- Public Attitudes Toward Nanotechnology (2002) (171)
- Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations: Converging Technologies in Society (2006) (170)
- Of Churches, Sects, and Cults: Preliminary Concepts for a Theory of Religious Movements (1979) (157)
- The Religious Ecology of Deviance (1989) (137)
- Convergence of Knowledge, Technology and Society: Beyond Convergence of Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive Technologies (2014) (121)
- Towards a Theory of Religion: Religious Commitment (1980) (119)
- The Sociology of Religious Movements (1996) (110)
- Overview Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance (2003) (110)
- The Warcraft Civilization: Social Science in a Virtual World (2010) (107)
- Managing nano-bio-info-cogno innovations (2006) (99)
- Artificial Social Intelligence (1994) (92)
- Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual (2009) (77)
- Cult Formation: Three Compatible Models (1979) (73)
- The new world of discovery, invention, and innovation: convergence of knowledge, technology, and society (2013) (71)
- Friendship, Religion, and the Occult: A Network Study (1981) (66)
- Leadership in science and technology : a reference handbook (2012) (63)
- Religion and the New Atheism (2010) (60)
- Neural Network Models of Religious Belief (1995) (60)
- Berkshire encyclopedia of human-computer interaction (2004) (59)
- God from the Machine: Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition (2006) (53)
- The 'Consciousness Reformation' Reconsidered (1981) (47)
- Dimensions of Science Fiction. (1986) (41)
- After the New Age (2004) (36)
- The Social Structure of Online Communities (2020) (36)
- Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (2016) (35)
- Nanotechnology: Societal Implications - (2007) (34)
- Nanotechnology: Societal Implications - Maximizing Benefit for Humanity. Report of the National Nanotechnology Initiative Workshop Held in Arlington, Virginia on 3-5 December 2003 (2005) (33)
- eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming (2013) (32)
- Progress in convergence : technologies for human wellbeing (2006) (31)
- Scientology: To Be Perfectly Clear (1980) (30)
- Converging technologies and human destiny. (2007) (29)
- Shaker Demographics 1840-1900: An Example of the Use of U.S. Census Enumeration Schedules (1982) (28)
- Online Multiplayer Games (2010) (28)
- Science and technology convergence: with emphasis for nanotechnology-inspired convergence (2016) (27)
- The spaceflight/revolution : a sociological study (1977) (25)
- The New Vigilantes. (1982) (25)
- Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Cult (1978) (25)
- The Evolution of Semantic Systems (2004) (25)
- Client and Audience Cults in America (1980) (23)
- Goals in Space: American Values and the Future of Technology (1991) (22)
- Religious insanity in America: the official nineteenth-century theory. (1984) (22)
- The Transhuman Heresy (2005) (22)
- Technology as a social and political phenomenon (1979) (22)
- Nanotechnology: Societal Implications - II. Individual Perspectives (2006) (21)
- Nanotechnology: Societal Implications - I. Maximising Benefits for Humanity (2006) (21)
- Explaining the Church Member Rate (1990) (20)
- Creative Uses of Software Errors: Glitches and Cheats (2007) (20)
- Transformative Concepts in Scientific Convergence (2006) (18)
- Nanoconvergence: The Unity of Nanoscience, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science (2007) (18)
- Secularization and Cult Formation in the Jazz Age (1981) (18)
- Personality Capture and Emulation (2013) (17)
- Massive Questionnaires for Personality Capture (2003) (17)
- Cults of America: A Reconnaissance in Space and Time (1979) (17)
- Cyberspace: Sociology's Natural Domain (1999) (16)
- The Meaning and Value of Spaceflight (2015) (15)
- An open‐source population balance modeling framework for the simulation of polydisperse multiphase flows (2021) (15)
- Perspectives on Virtual Veneration (2013) (15)
- Electronic game research methodologies : Studying religious implications (2007) (15)
- Sociocultural Meanings of Nanotechnology: Research Methodologies (2004) (14)
- Motivations for space exploration (2009) (14)
- The Endtime Family: Children of God (2002) (14)
- “Moonies” in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade.By David G. Bromley and Anson D. Shupe, Jr. Beverly Hills: Sage Library of Social Research and Science, Sin, and Scholarship: The Politics of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church.Edited by Irving Louis Horowitz (1981) (13)
- The Virtual Future (2011) (12)
- Cult Membership in the Roaring Twenties: Assessing Local Receptivity (1981) (12)
- Women's Access to Elite Careers: In Search of a Religion Effect (1982) (12)
- Church and Cult in Canada (1982) (12)
- Formal Explanation of Religion: A Progress Report (1984) (12)
- Suicide, Homicide, and Religion: Durkheim Reassessed (1981) (12)
- American-Born Sects: Initial Findings (1981) (12)
- Minimum intelligent neural device: A tool for social simulation (1995) (11)
- Sex Role Ideology and Delinquency (1983) (11)
- The Spaceflight Revolution Revisited (2005) (10)
- International Network for Integrated Social Science (1999) (10)
- Asking and answering. (1993) (10)
- Star Worlds: Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds (2016) (9)
- Sociology Laboratory: Computer Simulations for Learning Sociology (1988) (9)
- The Cultural Context of Scientology (2009) (9)
- EXPANDING THE USE OF THE INTERNET IN RELIGIOUS RESEARCH (2016) (9)
- Privacy and Property on the Net: Research Questions (2003) (9)
- When Virtual Worlds Expand (2010) (9)
- Religion and science (2004) (9)
- Dynamic Secularization, Information Technology and the Tension Between Religion and Science (2017) (8)
- Social and Ethical Implications of Nanotechnology (2004) (8)
- The Culture Game (2013) (8)
- Rediscovering Moral Communities (2013) (8)
- The Future of Virtual Worlds (2010) (7)
- The Harvard Department of Social Relations (2012) (7)
- Reality of Rapid Convergence (2006) (6)
- SACRED ALGORITHMS: EXCHANGE THEORY OF RELIGIOUS CLAIMS (2003) (6)
- The Future of the Internet: Cultural and Individual Conceptions (2004) (6)
- New World View (2010) (6)
- Early Convergence Research and Education Supported by the National Science Foundation a (2004) (6)
- Virtual worlds as cultural models (2010) (6)
- Star Wars Galaxies (2011) (6)
- Sociology on the World Wide Web (1995) (6)
- Goals in Space: American Values and the Future of Technology. (1992) (6)
- Citizen Social Science (2020) (6)
- Spore: Assessment of the Science in an Evolution-Oriented Game (2010) (5)
- Cognitive Expansion Technologies (2008) (5)
- God from the Machine: Artifical Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition (Cognitive Science of Religion Series) (2006) (5)
- New Age Religion and Irreligion (2007) (5)
- Ideological differences (2006) (5)
- Computer Simulations of Space Societies (2018) (5)
- The General Social Survey (2015) (5)
- Comprar Nanotechnology: Societal Implications · I: Maximising Benefits for Humanity; II: Individual Perspectives | Roco, Mihail C. | 9781402046582 | Springer (2007) (5)
- Burglarizing Nietzsche's Tomb (2010) (5)
- Attitudes Towards Interstellar Communication: AN Empirical Study (1983) (5)
- Twenty-First Century Society (2016) (4)
- Women in science fiction (1982) (4)
- Computational Affective Sociology (2008) (4)
- Science, Technology, and Reality in The Matrix Online and Tabula Rasa (2010) (4)
- Star Trek Online (2011) (4)
- Debatable Peaks and Contested Valleys: Englishness and the Dolomite Landscape Scenery (2016) (4)
- Alternatives to American mainline churches (1985) (4)
- Dimensions of Research (2016) (4)
- The Matrix Online (2011) (4)
- Titian Country: Josiah Gilbert (1814–1893) and the Dolomite Mountains (2017) (4)
- Individual Incentives for Investment in Gameworlds (2016) (3)
- 6. Cognitive Science And The New Atheism (2010) (3)
- ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF UBIQUITOUS HEALTH CARE (2016) (3)
- The Social Information Infrastructure (1995) (3)
- World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade (2011) (3)
- WHOLE-PERSONALITY EMULATION (2012) (3)
- Computer simulations for learning sociology (1987) (3)
- Converging Technologies (NBIC) (2003) (3)
- Cultural Science (2020) (3)
- English drama: A modern viewpoint; (1968) (3)
- Computerized sociometric marketing: Advances and prospects (1991) (3)
- Transhumanism: An Online Network of Technoprogressive Quasi-Religions (2017) (3)
- Grand Computing Challenges for Sociology (1994) (3)
- Space: The final frontier (2009) (3)
- Strategies for Personality Transfer (2006) (3)
- The Era of Convergence (2016) (3)
- The Iron Law (2013) (3)
- Virtual Sociocultural Convergence (2016) (3)
- Ancestor Veneration Avatars (2013) (2)
- Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History, by John R. Hall and Salvation and Suicide: An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown, by David Chidester (1989) (2)
- Nanotechnology and Societal Interactions (2001) (2)
- The convergence of sociology and computer science (2008) (2)
- Heritage in the clouds : Englishness in the Dolomites (2014) (2)
- Family History Digital Libraries (2018) (2)
- Investigative Social Research: Individual and Team Field Research.By Jack D. Douglas. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1976. 229 pp. Cloth, $11.00; paper, $6.00 (1977) (2)
- Science and Technology Globalization (2016) (2)
- An Information Technology Surrogate for Religion (2014) (2)
- Identity Expansion and Transcendence (2014) (2)
- The virtual conquest of death (2017) (2)
- Patterns of Extraterrestrial Culture (2014) (2)
- Governing Nanotechnology: Social, Ethical and Human Issues (2010) (2)
- Fluid democracy (2019) (2)
- The Psychoanalytic Movement (2012) (2)
- Cults and their attractions: cults. (1989) (2)
- The Restructuring of American Religion.By Robert Wuthnow. Princeton University Press. 374 pp. $25.00 (1990) (1)
- Technological Determinism in Construction of an Online Society (2016) (1)
- Simulated Martian Social Science Laboratories (2018) (1)
- Intellectual Property Rights (2005) (1)
- Prison Homosexuality: Myth and Reality.By Alice M. Propper. Lexington, Ma.: Lexington Books, 1981. 237 pp. $23.95 (1982) (1)
- Pessimism: Critiques of Religion and Technology in the Fallout Games (2017) (1)
- Social Construction from Within: Satan's Process (2017) (1)
- Historical Research: Oneida Online (2017) (1)
- Massively Multi-Agent Simulations of Religion (2018) (1)
- Linguistic Convergence and Divergence in Middle Earth (2016) (1)
- Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Evolution (2014) (1)
- Divergence in the Fall of a Virtual Civilization (2016) (1)
- A Treatise on the Law of Mines and Minerals (2010) (1)
- Social Organizations in Online Virtual Worlds (2016) (1)
- Jediism: The Most Popular Online Virtual Religion (2017) (1)
- Toward a Theory of Religion: Religious Commitment (2019) (1)
- Social cognition of religion (2006) (1)
- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Convergence (2017) (1)
- Future tenseWill (2008) (1)
- Democratization Movements (2021) (1)
- Affective Alternates: Comment on Aylett and Paiva (2012) (1)
- The Spaceflight Revolution Revisited 1 (2004) (1)
- The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements, edited by David G. Bromley:The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements (1999) (1)
- APPENDIX I (2006) (1)
- Computer Simulation for Space-Oriented Strategic Thinking (2018) (1)
- Future Tense: Processional (2015) (1)
- Transcendence: Virtual Artificial Intelligence (2017) (1)
- Thinking about religious futures (2004) (1)
- Grand hopes. (1993) (1)
- Virtual Nature: Environmentalism in Two Multi-player Online Games (2010) (1)
- Social Science Approaches for Assessing Nanotechnology’s Implications (2001) (1)
- The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in our Midst, by Stephen L. Talbott (1996) (1)
- Against Ruskin: Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell’s recasting of Venice (2021) (1)
- Researching New Religious Movements: Responses and Redefinitions, by Elisabeth Arweck. New York: Routledge, 2006, 446 pp.; $39.95 USD (paper), $125.00 USD (cloth) (2008) (1)
- Human-Technology Collaboration (2016) (1)
- Educational Simulations of the Evolution of Spaceflight (2018) (1)
- "Moonies" in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade.@@@Science, Sin, and Scholarship: The Politics of Reverend Moon and the Unification Church. (1981) (1)
- Maximizing benefits for humanity (2007) (1)
- Atheism and social cognition (2012) (1)
- Virtual World Astrosociology (2010) (1)
- World of Warcraft (2015) (1)
- Enhancing Group and Societal Outcomes (2003) (1)
- Residualism: Online Survival of Rejected Religions (2017) (1)
- New Religious Movements: A Bibliographic Essay (2007) (0)
- 4. THE NEW WAVE (1986) (0)
- Prison Homosexuality: Myth and Reality. (1982) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- Introduction: Tools for Unravelling Heritage (2020) (0)
- Evolution from Home Movies to Videos in Social Media (2018) (0)
- 5. THE FANTASY CLUSTER (1986) (0)
- Citizen Science (2016) (0)
- The Rights of Avatars (2008) (0)
- The law of mines and minerals: with an appendix of mining precedents, fully annotated with references to the text : and a glossary of English mining terms. (2010) (0)
- Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Interplanetary Emissary Klaatu Are Not Anti-Atomic: A Reassessment of the Filmic Evidence (2021) (0)
- The Skylark and the Shuttle (2011) (0)
- Resting in Peace ( Lord of the Rings Online ) (2014) (0)
- Nemesis in Mordor: The Possibility of Posthuman Savagery (2021) (0)
- Enduring Horror (Age of Conan) (2014) (0)
- Economic Impacts and Commercialization of Nanotechnology (2007) (0)
- Cyburgs: The Virtual Community . Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Howard Rheingold. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1993. x, 325 pp. $22.95. (1994) (0)
- Epilogue: Messner Country (2020) (0)
- Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains (2020) (0)
- Computer Technology and Social Issues, by Garson (1996) (0)
- The Spaceflight Revolution: A Sociological Study (1978) (0)
- Seeking Truth ( Tabula Rasa ) (2014) (0)
- Walden Three (2020) (0)
- Fatal guidance (2017) (0)
- XII. On several Species of Bolboceras, Kirby, from New Holland, in the Collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., &c (2009) (0)
- Autonomy Within Rigid Rule-Based Systems (2016) (0)
- A Virtual Human-Centered Galaxy (2018) (0)
- Singing a Song ( EverQuest ) (2014) (0)
- Interstellar Travel Across Virtual Galaxies (2018) (0)
- Reply to Jorgensen (1981) (0)
- Insuring Hope (Elder Scrolls Online) (2014) (0)
- The V-2 Rocket Program (2012) (0)
- Aftermath Impact (2023) (0)
- 1. AN APPROACH TO SCIENCE FICTION (1986) (0)
- The Laboratory of the Picturesque (2020) (0)
- Goals in Space (2015) (0)
- Satan's Power: A Deviant Psychotherapy Group@@@Sacred Journeys: The Conversion of Young Americans to Divine Light Mission@@@Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization, and Maintenance of Faith (1979) (0)
- Picturesque Lost (2019) (0)
- The New York City Mission Society (2021) (0)
- Religion and Mental Illness (2013) (0)
- The Perpetual System (2021) (0)
- Extraterrestrial Tales (1998) (0)
- Integration of Family Records into Community History (2018) (0)
- Documenting and Digitally Presenting Family Photographs (2018) (0)
- Mobile and Ubiquitous Capture (2014) (0)
- The Process Church of the Final Judgement (2021) (0)
- Recording Contemporary Family History Through Social Media (2018) (0)
- Tension with the Sociocultural Environment (2021) (0)
- Optimism: Religious Diversity in the WildStar Massively Multiplayer Online Game (2017) (0)
- Fragmentation: Online Evidence About Religious Innovation (2017) (0)
- The Space Race (2015) (0)
- Cult Archaeology and Creationism. Understanding Pseudoscientific Beliefs about the Past. Francis B. Harrold and Raymond A. Eve, Eds. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1987. xii, 163 pp., illus. $20. Based on a symposium, 1986. (1988) (0)
- 2. THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENCE FICTION (1986) (0)
- Technological and social change : a transdisciplinary model (1981) (0)
- Letter from William Bainbridge, U.S. Frigate Constitution, to H.A.S. Dearborn, Boston, Massachusetts : autograph manuscript signed, 1812 October 16 (2018) (0)
- The City and the Stars (2011) (0)
- Combatting Heresy (Perfect World) (2014) (0)
- Technological Convergence from the Nanoscale (2007) (0)
- A Virtual Trinity (2019) (0)
- Connections Between Family Data and Wider Meanings (2018) (0)
- Information Technologies for Cultivating Domestic Artifacts (2018) (0)
- Uniting a Couple (Guild Wars 2) (2014) (0)
- A Virtual Launch into a Computational Cosmos (2018) (0)
- 3. THE HARD SCIENCE TRADITION (1986) (0)
- Mountains Run Mad: Picturesque Signatures in the Dolomites (2018) (0)
- 8. ENLIGHTENMENT AND TRANSCENDENCE (1986) (0)
- Prosperity and the Future of Technology (2009) (0)
- Virtual World Representation of Family Homes (2018) (0)
- Achieving a Goal ( Defiance ) (2014) (0)
- Future tense: Wow! (2014) (0)
- The New Vigilantes.By Anson D. Shupe, Jr., and David G. Bromley. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1980. 267 pp. Cloth, $18.00; paper, $8.95 (1982) (0)
- Applications of Online Censuses and Other Official Records (2018) (0)
- American Religious Communes (2021) (0)
- Trajectories to the Heavens (2007) (0)
- Alienation and Assimilation in a Warcraft World (2016) (0)
- Selecting a World (Uru: Myst Online) (2014) (0)
- The Science of Virtual Culture Wars (2022) (0)
- A Simulated Utopia: The Social System of a Virtual Ancient Egypt (2018) (0)
- The Adventist Movement (2021) (0)
- Secularization, Revival, and Cult Formation (2018) (0)
- Convergence in Online Urban Environments (2016) (0)
- Ahead of Time (2016) (0)
- Modeling Social Stratification in Online Games (2016) (0)
- 6. THE EFFECTS OF SCIENCE FICTION (1986) (0)
- Exploring Possibilities ( Runes of Magic ) (2014) (0)
- Organized Miracles: A Study of a Contemporary, Youth, Communal, Fundamentalist Organization.@@@Sacred Journeys: The Conversion of Young Americans to Divine Light Mission. (1980) (0)
- Dimensions of Online Role-Playing: Anchored in the Tolkien Mythos (2022) (0)
- Ethics and Law (2007) (0)
- Among the Scientologists: History, Theology, and Praxis, by DONALD A. WESTBROOK (2020) (0)
- Information Technology Supported Convergence (2016) (0)
- Paganization: The Virtual Revival of a Cult Online (2017) (0)
- The Golden Age of Mountaineering (2020) (0)
- The Holiness Movement (2021) (0)
- Demographic Transition (2016) (0)
- The Effect of Cultural Drift on Interstellar Colonization (2018) (0)
- Exploratory Oral History Interviews of Family Members (2018) (0)
- Book Review: Braman, S. (2007). Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 569 pp. $37.50 (paperback) (2009) (0)
- Functional Equivalence Across Virtual Cultures (2016) (0)
- Religion and religiosity in America : studies in honor of Joseph H. Fichter (1984) (0)
- Science and Religion (2015) (0)
- Book Review:God's Blueprints: A Sociological Study of Three Utopian Sects. John McKelvie (1976) (0)
- The Alps and the Grand Tour (2020) (0)
- D. Enhancing Group and Societal Outcomes Theme Summary Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance (pre-publication On-line Version) Statements Cognition, Social Interaction, Communication, and Convergent Technologies Engineering the Science of Cognition to Enhance Human Performance Conv (2002) (0)
- The Manhattan Project (2012) (0)
- Dolomite Close-Ups (2020) (0)
- World of hackcraft (2021) (0)
- King Laurin’s Garden (2020) (0)
- Women in Science Fiction 1 (1982) (0)
- Gaming and Virtual Worlds (2018) (0)
- The Silver Age of Mountaineering (2020) (0)
- Humanization: The Crash or Reboot of Social Psychology (2017) (0)
- The rock behind the Lagoon : The Dolomites in the iconography of Venice (2017) (0)
- Asian Imports (2021) (0)
- 16. Science and Religion (2008) (0)
- Convergence of Real and Simulated Spaceflight (2018) (0)
- Book Review: Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research (1991) (0)
- The New Age (2021) (0)
- Organized Miracles: A Study of a Contemporary, Youth, Communal, Fundamentalist Organization.By James T. Richardson, Mary White Stewart, and Robert B. Simmonds and Sacred Journeys: The Conversion of Young Americans to Divine Light Mission.By James V. Downton, Jr (1980) (0)
- Social Life on Distant Alien Worlds (2018) (0)
- Introduction: Virtual Sociocultural Convergence (2016) (0)
- Deadlock (2018) (0)
- Producing Coherent Narratives from Family Diaries and Memoirs (2018) (0)
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