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

[Tim Laquintano]

You might want to look into "sit outs" by online poker players to protest
poker sites that increase fees. I've heard of this recently happening on the
French version of PokerStars to protest increased rake & taxes.

Tim Laquintano
Assistant Prof. of English
Lafayette College
Easton, PA

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> Science and technology journalist - Teacher
>
> Buenos Aires, Argentina
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