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

[Arun Menon]

Since someone brought up second life, thought i would point out some old
movements in secondlife a few years back.
I am also looking for similar material, so please forward links and
resources.

The SLLA (the second life liberation army)
http://sites.google.com/site/secondlla/ and
http://slla.blogspot.com/2006/10/slla-attacks-reebok.html some mention of
SLLA also turned up in the SL forums archived here
http://forums-archive.secondlife.com/140/ee/127840/1.html They were made
prominent for a very very short duration when they attacked Reebok and
American Apparel and other prominent brands. The second life herald
documents most of the controversies in SL here
http://www.secondlifeherald.com/ which is now the alphaville herald. Mark
Wallace has a nice article on wired here
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/second.html

The Second Life Herald by Peter Ludlow and Mark Wallace Published by
MITPress 2007
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11295

Andrew Herman, Rosemary J. Coombe & Lewis Kaye, YOUR SECOND LIFE? Goodwill
and the performativity of intellectual property in online digital gaming,
Cultural Studies Vol. 20, Nos 2-3 March/May 2006, pp. 184-210.

Greg Lastowka, Rules of Play in Games and Culture.
http://gac.sagepub.com/content/4/4/379.abstract
Greg Lastowka, The Laws of Virtual Worlds
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=402860

Castronova has also written Exodus to thevirtual world 2007, which is more
recent than Synthetic Worlds 2005.

Thanks,
Arun Menon


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Stacy Blasiola <blasiol2 at uwm.edu> wrote:

> Just thought I'd chime in that this thread has been particularly helpful to
> me, too. So thank you to all who contributed.
>
> Stacy Blasiola
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> Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> > Dear AoIR-lers:
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> > 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 =)
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