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@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
Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor@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@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@ncf.ca ptimusk@sympatico.ca web: www.crystalcomputing.net blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Tortolini Sent: October-07-10 10:56 AM To: List Aoir Subject: [Air-L] Need help: virtual worlds and games grass-root rebellions
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 =)
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