[Air-L] Virtual Worlds and MMOGS

[Mark Chen]

I highly recommend

TL Taylor's Play Between Worlds for account of EverQuest culture, both on
and offline
Julian Dibbell's Play Money, for account of money making in MMOGs

mark

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca> wrote:

> Friends-
>
> If you were to suggest two or three canonical/essential readings on
> persistent virtual worlds, especially of the MMOG variety, what would you
> suggest. Also, aside from Castranova and Malaby, who would you suggest for
> economics of virtual worlds.
>
> AH
>
>
>
> Andrew Herman, Ph. D.
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Mark Chen | @mcdanger | markdangerchen.net
Post-Doctoral Scholar | Games Ethnographer
LIFE Center | UW Institute for Science and Math Education
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