[Air-L] Need help: virtual worlds and games grass-root rebellions

Mark Chen markchen at u.washington.edu
Thu Oct 7 11:11:43 PDT 2010


There've been a few WoW protest stories over the years from WoW Insider:
http://wow.joystiq.com/search/?q=protest&invocationType=wl-auto

<http://wow.joystiq.com/search/?q=protest&invocationType=wl-auto>mark

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you very, very much, people!! Now I have a lot of information
> This list rocks!!!
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> Alejandro.
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> 2010/10/7 Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca>
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> > There were some rebellions in Second Life too. Wagner James Au tells some
> > of
> > these stories in "The Making of Second Life" Collins 2008.
> >
> > Peter Timusk
> > at571 at ncf.ca
> > ptimusk at sympatico.ca
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> rebellions
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> > Dear AoIR-lers:
> >
> > I need some help. I was invited to participate in a conference for games
> > developers and multimedia artist, and I´m thinking to talk about user´s
> > rebellions in online games and virtual worlds. Reading the Celia Pearce´s
> > book "Communities of play" (excellent reading) I found a mention of a WoW
> > rebellion, in 2004.
> > Can you suggest me some other readings about this kind of grass-root
> > protest
> > movements? Also any pictures?
> > Thank you very much =)
> >
> > Alejandro Tortolini
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Mark Chen | @mcdanger | markdangerchen.net
PhD | Games Ethnographer | LIFE Center | UW Education
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