Recommended Reading

Au, Wagner James. (2008). The making of Second Life: Notes from the new world. New York: HarperCollins.

Chin, Bettina M. (2007, Summer). Regulating your second life: Defamation in virtual worlds. Brooklyn Law Review 72(4), 1303-1349.

Cooper, Robbie; Dibbell, Julian; & Spaight, Tracy. (2007). Alter ego: Avatars and their creators. London: Chris Boot.

DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, Ellen Cushman, and Jeffrey T. Grabill. (2005). Infrastructure and composing: The when of new-media writing. College Composition and Communication 57(1), 14-44.

Dibbell, Julian. (1993). A rape in cyberspace: How an evil clown, a Haitian trickster spirit, two wizards, and a cast of dozens turned a database into a society. The Village Voice, 36-42.

Juul, Jesper. (2005). Half-real: Video games between real worlds and fictional worlds. Cambridge, MA: MIT.

Krause, Tim. (2008). Real-life (RL) experiences with Second Life (SL): Participatory learning as a means for increasing student engagement and retention. Paper presented at 2008 Computers and Composition Online Conference. Available online from http://www.uwsp.edu/wdmd/tkrause/second_life_paper.pdf

Malaby, Thomas M. (2006). Coding control: Governance and contingency in the production of online worlds. First Monday 7. Available online from http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1606/1521

McKeon, Matt and Susan Wyche. Life across boundaries: Design, identity, and gender in Second Life. Available online from http://www.mattmckeon.com/portfolio/second-life.pdf

Robbins, Sarah. (2008). The home page of Sarah "Intellagirl" Robbins. Available online from http://www.intellagirl.com/

Robbins, Sarah and Mark Bell. (2008). Second Life for dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Yee, Nick. (2006). The psychology of massively multi-user online role-playing games: Motivations, emotional investment, relationships and problematic usage. In R. Schroder & A. S. Axelsson (Eds.), Avatars at Work and Play (pp. 187-207). London: Springer-Verlag.

Reading a book in Second Life. Image courtesy of Liz_Link on Flickr.