[Air-L] Virtual Worlds and MMOGS
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human.factor.one at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 11:59:45 PST 2010
Lisa Nakamura
http://cms.mit.edu/podcasts/insights/cminsights-lisa-nakamura.mp3
I believe her new book, Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on
the Internet, goes into Chinese labour gold farming in WoW.
Cheers,
@SharonG
On Dec 18, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Mark Chen 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.
>> Associate Professor and Chairperson
>> Department of Communication Studies
>> Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory
>> Wilfrid Laurier University
>> Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5
>> CANADA
>> 519 884-1970 x3693
>>
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> brevity
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