Lisa Nakamura http://cms.mit.edu/podcasts/insights/cminsights-lisa-nakamura.mp3 I believe her new book, Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet, goes into Chinese labour gold farming in WoW. Cheers, @SharonG On Dec 18, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Mark Chen wrote:
I highly recommend
TL Taylor's Play Between Worlds for account of EverQuest culture, both on and offline Julian Dibbell's Play Money, for account of money making in MMOGs
mark
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman@wlu.ca> wrote:
Friends-
If you were to suggest two or three canonical/essential readings on persistent virtual worlds, especially of the MMOG variety, what would you suggest. Also, aside from Castranova and Malaby, who would you suggest for economics of virtual worlds.
AH
Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693
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