Tuesday, Nov. 18
Read:
- Julian Dibbell, “The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer,” The New York Times Magazine, June 17, 2007.
- Lisa Nakamura, “Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft” Critical Studies in Media Communication (June 2009). [DOWNLOAD]
Thursday, Nov. 20
Read:
- Cory Doctorow, For the Win (2010); available free through creative common license [DOWNLOAD]
Videos watched in class:
– Gold Farmer’s documentary – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
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– Cory Doctorow interview; segment on “For the Win” starts around 4:15 in the first video – http://esrcgenomicsforum.blogspot.com/2011/08/gold-farmers-3-d-printers-and-bad_17.html