Julian Dibbell
Julian Dibbell (
/dɨˈbɛl/; born February 23, 1963) is an American author and technology journalist with a particular interest in social systems within online communities. His 1993 article "A Rape in Cyberspace"[1] detailed attempts of LambdaMOO, an online community, to quantify and deal with lawbreaking in its midst. The article was later included in Dibbell's book, My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. Additionally, Dibbell has chronicled the evolution of online worlds for Wired Magazine, and has written about his attempt to make a living playing MMORPGs in the book Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot. Dibbell is also a founder of the academic gaming research blog Terra Nova.
Dibbell was born in New York City. He grew up in Claremont, California, and currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, attending the University of Chicago Law School.
[edit] Works
- Dibbell, Julian. My Tiny Life: crime and passion in a virtual world. Owl Books, 1999. ISBN 0805036261
- Dibbell, Julian. Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot. Basic Books, 2006. ISBN 0465015352
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[edit] External links
- Official site
- The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer - By Julian Dibbell, published in the New York Times on June 17, 2007.
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