The Horde is Evil? Part 3 — Carnival!

Posted on July 8th, 2007 by Carlos

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If you haven’t yet, scroll down to get the low-down on this series of posts. Basically, I am exploring why Dr. Edward Castronova, one of the country’s leading experts on virtual environments, would say that people who play Horde characters on World of Warcraft are engaging in “a mildly wicked act,” and whether he’s right. […]

The Horde is Evil? Part 2

Posted on June 30th, 2007 by Carlos

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I think I want to start out my analysis of Castronova’s claim that the Horde in WoW is evil, and therefore those who play Horde characters are engaging in ethical misdemeanors, by exploring whether there is a legitimate difference between acts we commit in our normal lives versus acts committed in a virtual environment such […]

The Horde is Evil? Part 1

Posted on June 28th, 2007 by Carlos

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Edward Castronova is kind of my hero. He’s the brains behind The Arden Project, the first MMORPG ever developed with academic purposes in mind, and he got a quarter-million-dollar grant from The MacArthur Foundation to do it. In short, he’s an accomplished academic who writes with intelligence, clarity and humanity, and who’s forging his career […]

Call for Papers: A Special Issue of _Aether_ Focusing on Game Geography

Posted on June 28th, 2007 by Carlos

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I was taking a look at TerraNova, a virtual environments blog/scholarly community, for a very different reason (on which I will be posting laster), but came across this cool call for papers. Think this is one I will be submitting to:
Aether, an online, peer-reviewed journal, invites submission of papers for a special issue focusing on […]