Hello to everyone. I'm a PhD student in Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and have just subscribed to this list.

I am in the preliminary stages (read: literature collection) of research project regarding the psychology of, and construction of community in, MMORPGs (Massively Muliplayer Online Role Playing Games). I was wondering if anyone knew of any academic studies of online gaming (in any context, not limited to the ones I described). I've only managed to find the works of Nicholas Yee regarding MMORPGs and Ever Quest in particular (but none of those have have been published anywhere despite being rather extensive).