[Air-L] Virtual Worlds and MMOGS

[Nicolas Suzor]

In addition to those, I'd strongly recommend

Greg Lastowka, Virtual Justice (2010, YUP)

and, on the economics side, Vili Lehdonvirta's 2009 PhD thesis,
"Virtual Consumption": http://info.tse.fi/julkaisut/vk/Ae11_2009.pdf


Nic

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Mark Chen <markchen at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 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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>> Department of Communication Studies
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