Jim- Go to http://terranova.blogs.com/ It's where virtual world issues get posted and debated by most of the leading scholars and by the game developers, too. You'll also find a ton of links to people and papers in the area encompassing social psych and ethnographic approaches, but also legal and economic ones as well. -Dmitri ******************** Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:19:19 -0400 From: jcumming@email.unc.edu Subject: [Air-l] Virtual Worlds/Game Studies To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <20050511101919.vjqrfumqw48ss808@webmail2.isis.unc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format="flowed" I'm a recent BA grad who is planning to enter a grad program focusing on virtual worlds and digital media in Fall '06. In the meantime, I am looking for meaningful work/experience related to those subjects - I'm particularly interested in the social psych & ethnography of online cultures, and their "emergent" qualities in relation to designers' intentions vs. players' use. Any suggestions? I already know of the conference recently posted on the listserv. My apologies for adding to the inboxes, but I was told this would be an excellent source of input. Thanks. Jim University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill --------------- Dmitri Williams Assistant Professor, Speech Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign