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American journalist
Dibbell in 2009
Julian Dibbell (; born February 23, 1963) is an American author and technology
journalist with a focus on social systems within online communities.
[1]
Life and career
Dibbell was born in
New York City . He grew up in
Claremont, California and resides in
Chicago, Illinois . His uncle is
rock critic
Robert Christgau , and Dibbell has also published music criticism.
[2] He is a non-resident fellow of the
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
[3] and he previously served as George A. Miller Visiting Professor of Media at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .
[4] He is also a founder of the academic gaming research blog
Terra Nova .
His 1993 article "
A Rape in Cyberspace "
[5] detailed attempts of
LambdaMOO , an online community, to quantify and deal with lawbreaking in its midst. The article was later included in his first book, My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World . Dibbell has also written about Chinese
gold farmers for
The New York Times Magazine
[6] and about
griefer culture for "
Wired " Magazine.
[7] He chronicled his attempt to make a living playing
MMORPGs in his second book, Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot .
[8]
[9]
Dibbell graduated from
Yale University , summa cum laude, in 1986. He graduated from the
University of Chicago Law School (where he was an editor of the
University of Chicago Law Review )
[10] in 2014. Dibbell now practices law as an associate in the Business and Technology Sourcing practice of the global law firm
Mayer Brown .
[11]
Works
Dibbell, Julian. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World . Owl Books, 1999.
ISBN
0-8050-3626-1
Dibbell, Julian. Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot . Basic Books, 2006.
ISBN
0-465-01535-2
Dibbell, Julian and
Clarisse Thorn . Violation: Rape In Gaming . Amazon CreateSpace, 2012.
ISBN
1480077453
Notes
^ Leonard, Andrew (January 22, 1999).
The unbearable realness of virtual being.
Archived 2011-02-16 at the
Wayback Machine
Salon.com
^ Christgau, Robert (1991).
Classic Rock.
^
"People: Julian Dibbell" . Center for Internet and Society . Stanford University. Retrieved 2012-06-11 .
^ Gudeman, Kim (25 Feb 2010).
"Noted technology journalist to help bridge gap between engineers, technology users" . Coordinated Science Laboratory News . University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Archived from
the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 2012-06-11 .
^
Dibbell, Julian. "A Rape in Cyberspace." The Village Voice 21 Dec 1993.
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Dibbell, Julian. "The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer." The New York Times Magazine 17 June 2007.
^
Dibbell, Julian. "Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World." Wired Magazine 18 Jan 2008.
^ Stamper, Dustin (19 January 2007).
"Taxing Ones and Zeros: Can the IRS Ignore Virtual Economies?" . Tax Analysts. Archived from
the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2014 .
^ MONTAGNE, RENEE (February 10, 2006).
"Online Gaming, Money and Tax Law" . NPR. Retrieved 19 February 2014 .
^
"The University of Chicago Law Review Vol. 81 Masthead" (PDF) .
^
"Mayer Brown Law Firm PRofile" .
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