[Air-l] Call for papers for panel on MMORPGs

[Donald Snyder]

Conference: Association of Internet Research
Internet Research 4.0: Broadening the Band
http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/

Call for proposals for a panel on the Internet and MMORPGs

Send submissions and queries to Donald Snyder by Tuesday March 4th at
dsnyder at otal.umd.edu

The call for papers for this year's Association of Internet Researchers
conference emphasizes the important ways that digital communications
networks affect how people relate to and communicate with each other.
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) increasingly
serve as creative realms for such online communication and interaction.
This panel examines several of the key issues related to MMORPGs, with
possible topics to include access, the digital divide, participation in
and the creation of digital narratives, the formation of communities, and
the economics within and surrounding the individual games.

Proposals for papers should be in the form an approximately 250-500 word
abstract.