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19. Twixt and Breaching Experiments in MMOs

Posted by Bart

I am unclear about how to manage cross-blog commentary but there is an interesting storm brewing in game/virtual world studies over Dave Myers and his attempts to do research along the lines of Harold Garfinkel’s breaching experiments in the context of the MMO City of Heroes/Villians. There are now hundreds of comments and counter comments across a variety of issues.
Suffice it to say that a good starting point is Greg Lastowka’s thread on Terra Nova …