Resources

To view our in-class presentation powerpoint, please go to Presentation Materials.

Further reading:

• Nick Yee. MMORPG Demographics. The Daedalus Project. 2004.
• Bruce S. Woodcock. An Analysis of MMOG Subscription Growth. MMOGCHART.COM.
• Game Player Data. The Entertainment Software Association. 2011.
• Henry Jenkins. Reality Bytes: Eight Myths about Video Games Debunked. PBS.
• Charlie Devereux. Anarchy on-line. CNN. August 23, 2007.
• “Vicious Sid”. The Griefer Within. GamePro. March 20, 2007.
• Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson. Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution. 
• John Suler.  Psychology of Cyberspace. CyberPsychology and Behavior. 2004.
• Chris Cox. Anonymity make the Internet go round. Psytechology. July, 2010.
• Jamie Madigan. The Psychology of Anonymity. GamePro. October 28, 2010.
• Julian Dibbell. A Rape in Cyberspace. 1998.
• Victoria S. Ekstrand. Unmasking Jane and John Doe: Online Anonymity and the First Amendment. Communication Law & Policy. 2003.
• Jonathan Zittrain. Online Role-play: Anonymity, Engagement, and Risk. Scientific American. March, 2011.
• Martin D. Owens Jr. Networked Being: Transactions in On-line Gaming Communities. Gaming Law Review and Economics. December, 2010.
• Raph Koster. Avatar Bill of Rights. 2000.
• Jaikumar Vijayan. Gaming giant Blizzard ends online anonymity, stirs up storm. Computer World. July 9, 2010.
• WoW Forums. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1869409755.
• Nicholas Deleon. When privacy meets hypocrisy: Blizzard Real ID edition. Crunch Gear. July 8, 2010.
• Sean Brooks. Blizzard Looks To Chill Forum Speech with Real ID. Center for Democracy and Technology. July 7, 2010.
•  Brett Molina. ‘WoW’ studio Blizzard to require real names on its forums. USA Today. July 8, 2010.
• Hal Halpin. Online Anonymity and You. Game Theory. October 11, 2010.
•  J. R. Suler and W. Phillips. The Bad Boys of Cyberspace: Deviant Behavior in Online Multimedia Communities and Strategies for Managing it. CyberPsychology and Behavior. 1998.