[Air-L] World Bank report on the virtual economy of gold farming and microwork
Vili Lehdonvirta
vili.lehdonvirta at hiit.fi
Thu Apr 7 04:34:51 PDT 2011
Hi All,
A report I coauthored for the World Bank's InfoDev programme about the "virtual economy" has just been published. It contains some new research on gold farming in MMOs, but also tries to expand the virtual economy concept to digital microwork, the real-money trade of Facebook likes and Twitter followers, and similar phenomena. Comments/views would be more than welcome!
PDF:
http://www.infodev.org/en/Document.1056.pdf
My blog post/summary:
http://virtual-economy.org/blog/world_bank_virtual_economy_rep
Washington Post article (focusing solely on the gaming side):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/world-bank-says-online-gaming-industry-is-a-boon-to-asia-economy/2011/04/05/AF1cebrC_story.html?hpid=z10
Best wishes,
Vili
--
Dr Vili Lehdonvirta
Researcher, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
Visiting Scholar, University of Tokyo
http://vili.lehdonvirta.com/
tel. +358 50 384 1530
-------------------------------------------------------------
Virtual Economy Research Network - http://virtual-economy.org
More information about the Air-L
mailing list