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

[Jessica L. Beyer]

I've just completed a dissertation chapter about WoW that discusses, among other things, why we see so little protest in WoW.  If you email me I'm happy to send a copy.

Also, in relation to WoW - you might look at the recent issue around Blizzard planning to force the use of real names on the WoW forums, as well as other debates surrounding the "RealID" tool in their games in general.  I believe there was a nice piece on Terra Nova about the change as well as coverage on WoW Insider and other places.

Best,
Jessica

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Jessica L. Beyer
Doctoral Candidate
University of Washington
Department of Political Science
http://students.washington.edu/jlbeyer
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Mark Chen wrote:

> 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!!!
>>
>> Alejandro.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2010/10/7 Peter Timusk <ptimusk at sympatico.ca>
>>
>>> 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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>>> 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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