Ancient Text
Long ago (and yes, very far away) I wrote about on-line community formation on the pre-web internet. Prompted partly by Richard Bartel’s post on this blog — and the fact that DragonMud’s archives have been off line for a while — I’ll try to repost those ancient articles here.
Orality in a Text-Based Community
Creating a Community of Interest: Self and Other on DragonMud
Shar’s Return: Performance as Gift
Ethnographic Fieldwork on the Internet
Living the Virtual Life: People and Places in an On-Line Community
Computer-Mediated Interactions
Creating a Community of Interest: “Self” and “Other” on DragonMud
Ritual and Religion on DragonMud
Concepts of Space and Place in a Virtual Community
Star’s log of DragonMud’s 5th Anniversary
the (now amazingly outdated) infamous bibliography