Nathaniel, There is such a range of material out there. I co-ran a day on identity in virtual spaces at NY Law School earlier this year which had a mixed group of legal scholars, game designers, social scientists etc. I put together a reading list for this which tried to get at identity from a few angles, I kept the philosophy to the minimum. Here is the reading list I came up with, I stressed that if people had not spent any time in a virtual world then actually being in one for a while was probably more valuable than the reading, but in this group each were experts in their respective fields, here is the list which I have re-ordered with the ones that I think might be most relevant to your audience plus a few notes: M Consalvo, S Paasonen, Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency & Identity. Gender, Identity, and (the limits of) play on the Internet pp. 21-43 - Challenges Turkle and Stone in some interesting ways. D Williams, Trouble in River City - The Social Life of Video Games, Ch5 ON the Screen on the 'Net pp74-78 Social Capital and the internet. - Interesting because it has an empirical slant based on observation of a group using Ashron's Call 2 (I think). always_black: Bow Nigger http://www.alwaysblack.com/blackbox/bownigger.html - quintacental 'new games journalism' piece that give primacy to race in virtual spaces R Bartle: Designing Virtual World Chapter 3: Players esp. pp174 - 185 - The creator of MUD's ideas on identity S Zizek: The Plage of Fantasies Cyberspace, or, the unbearable closure of being p133-143 - Thought provoking but possibly not for absolute beginners D W Winnicott: Playing and Reality Ch 4 Playing - Creative activity and the search for the self pp53-64 - One psychological theory that links play with identity Krzywinska, T (2004) ‘Who’s World is it?’: Creative Play and Player Presence in World of Warcraft, digra. http://www.gamesconference.org/digra2005/viewabstract.php?id=2 Reynolds, Ren http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2005/08/the_four_worlds.html - My first attempt at creating some kind of taxonomy for talking about classes of virtual space. One of my axes relates to identity. The Laws of Identity... Kim Cameron, Identity and Access Architect, Microsoft Corporation (May 2005) http://www.identityblog.com/stories/2005/07/25/thelaws.html - This is from the world of identity that is more interested in systems of trust, ID cards and all that. Solove, D (2004) The Digital Person - Technology and Privacy in the Information Age. New York: New York University Press, - The introduction might be of interest. FYI the 'experience' list that I proposed is as follows: Anarchy Online (Free) www.anarchy-online.com/ Second Life (free) secondlife.com and / or There (free 3 day trial) www.there.com Achaea (Free) www.ironrealms.com/achaea.html On 21 Dec 2005, at 18:41, Nathaniel Poor wrote:
hello group
anybody know of a good online identity piece for a 400-level class? 20-25 pages? recent?
I like some of Turkle's chapters for this, but they're so old they talk about MUDs and such and instead of having the students focus on online identity issues they end up rejecting the entire thing because they don't understand what a MUD is and it is very foreign to their online experience
so if there was something more recent...
something like "here is identity.... here is how online identity can be different and why" (so yeah sort of intro) but academic!
(yes, I'm building syllabi...)
oh, and something about facebook they all know what it is (all the freshman at Albion had accounts within the first two weeks of school!) but something that put an academic spin on it looks at it through the lens of THEORY!!!! something like that...
thanks
I hope everyone's end of term went well (or is continuing to do so)
^_^ ndp...
--------------------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. www.umich.edu/~natpoor Visiting Assistant Professor Communication Studies Dept. Albion College http://www.albion.edu/speech/
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