Digital Literacies of the Cybergirl

On page 6 in the embodiment section, Angela Thomas mentioned two events that deal with violence in cybercommunities. I thought they both sounded interesting and searched for them online.

The first is My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell and is available as a full copy through google books. There is a chapter on the "Rape in Cyberspace” that I am currently in the middle of. Here is the publishers blurb on the book:

“Traveling through the social networks of LambdaMOO--an electronic world where players create their own environments, where gender and identity are infinitely malleable, and where actions seductively appear to have no consequences in "real life" --Julian Dibbell discovers a cybercommunity ripped apart by such real-world issues as crime, punishment, class struggle, and sexual obsession. In "My Tiny Life, " Dibbell ventures deeply into this half-real world --exploring even the MOO's erotic demimonde--and finds that the lines between "real life" and "virtual reality" blur, leaving set notions of community, history, identity, and love transformed and the definition od "real" experience irrevocably altered.”

The second event is Rest In Peace, Bill the Bot: Death and Life in Virtual Worlds, by Mikael Jakobsson. The following links to an html version of a .pdf of the chapter. LINK to Bill the Bot.

Hope you all find these as interesting as I did!