Julian Dibbell
Julian Dibbell(/dɪˈbɛl/;born February 23, 1963) is an American author and technologyjournalistwith a focus on social systems within online communities.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Dibbell was born inNew York City.He grew up inClaremont, Californiaand resides inChicago, Illinois.His uncle isrock criticRobert Christgau,and Dibbell has also published music criticism.[2]He is a non-resident fellow of theStanford Center for Internet and Society[3]and he previously served as George A. Miller Visiting Professor of Media at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[4]He is also a founder of the academic gaming research blogTerra Nova.
His 1993 article "A Rape in Cyberspace"[5]detailed attempts ofLambdaMOO,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 Chinesegold farmersforThe New York Times Magazine[6]and aboutgrieferculture for "Wired"Magazine.[7]He chronicled his attempt to make a living playingMMORPGsin his second book,Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot.[8][9]
Dibbell graduated fromYale University,summa cum laude, in 1986. He graduated from theUniversity of Chicago Law School(where he was an editor of theUniversity 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 firmMayer Brown.[11]
Works
[edit]- Dibbell, Julian.My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World.Owl Books, 1999.ISBN0-8050-3626-1
- Dibbell, Julian.Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot.Basic Books, 2006.ISBN0-465-01535-2
- Dibbell, Julian andClarisse Thorn.Violation: Rape In Gaming.Amazon CreateSpace, 2012.ISBN1480077453
Notes
[edit]- ^Leonard, Andrew (January 22, 1999).The unbearable realness of virtual being.Archived2011-02-16 at theWayback MachineSalon
- ^Christgau, Robert (1991).Classic Rock.
- ^"People: Julian Dibbell".Center for Internet and Society.Stanford University.Retrieved2012-06-11.
- ^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 fromthe originalon 19 June 2010.Retrieved2012-06-11.
- ^Dibbell, Julian. "A Rape in Cyberspace."The Village Voice21 Dec 1993.
- ^Dibbell, Julian. "The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer."The New York Times Magazine17 June 2007.
- ^Dibbell, Julian. "Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World."Wired Magazine18 Jan 2008.
- ^Stamper, Dustin (19 January 2007)."Ta xing Ones and Zeros: Can the IRS Ignore Virtual Economies?".Tax Analysts. Archived fromthe originalon 24 September 2015.Retrieved19 February2014.
- ^MONTAGNE, RENEE (February 10, 2006)."Online Gaming, Money and Tax Law".NPR.Retrieved19 February2014.
- ^"The University of Chicago Law Review Vol. 81 Masthead"(PDF).
- ^"Mayer Brown Law Firm PRofile".
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