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Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality

Unsworth, John

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/195

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Title
Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality
Author(s)
Unsworth, John
Contributor(s)
  • Stephen, Timothy D.
  • Harrison, Teresa M.
Issue Date
1996
Keyword(s)
  • Electronic scholarship
  • Virtual community
  • Community
  • Multi user domain (MUD)
  • MUD object oriented (MOO)
  • Virtual reality
Abstract
This essay is an attempt to describe and explain the way that an unusual (but by no means anomalous) culture has developed under the aegis of PMC-MOO, a text-based virtual-reality program that runs on a networked Unix workstation. It is also an attempt to describe the scholarly and pedagogical trajectory of this program, by identifying the conceptual coordinates of its origin.
Publisher
SUNY Press
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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  • http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/Virtual.Community.html
  • http://hdl.handle.net/2142/195

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