Julian Dibbell (/dɪˈbɛl/; born February 23, 1963) is an American author and technology journalist with a focus on social systems within online communities.[1]
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, 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 MachineSalon.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.
^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).