I haven't read the WoW forums much, since I only played the game briefly, but the tone of the forums always surprised me for its viciousness (which also was problematic in terms of racism, homophobia and sexism being present)- I was a longtime reader of the forums for Final Fantasy 11, where things seemed much more civil. I don't know if it was the game, the type of player attracted, or even perhaps the fact that FF11's forums were *not* official-- Square had no such official ones, so players started them elsewhere (I read the ones on Allakhazam). I wonder if enough players are upset, if there would be greater movement towards 'independent' forums like that. Mia On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:31 PM, live <human.factor.one@gmail.com> wrote:
Love what you stated here. Very similar to what Bonnie Nardi of UC Irvine stated in a new blog post:
http://umichpress.typepad.com/university_of_michigan_pr/2010/07/bonnie-nardi...
On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:31 AM, David Jones wrote:
I've grown more and more concerned about the power of companies like
Facebook or Blizzard to dictate what constitutes "identitity" and how people manage their online personas. Mark Zuckerberg has used the rhetoric of "openness" and "integrity" to push Facebook's default stance of making their participants' data public. There are all sorts of scary questions about a company like Facebook deciding it has the right -- even the ethical obligation -- to determine what constitutes an online identity.
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