This NWN post, Rosedale leaving, does not surprise me. It seems a major management shift in parallel with a strategy shift was underway. I have been meaning to see more about the content policy, the class-action lawsuit against LL by content creators, and anything about new strategy.
All of these actions seem [...]

Fields in Institutional Theory

Every time I write about fields from an institutional theory perspective, I get hung up on what they mean.   I suppose that means I should write more about them.  Or that there are underlying tensions in how different scholars use them?
Somewhere in the various Virtual Worlds paper drafts that litter my “My Documents” like [...]

Discussion of governance at TN blog

Here is an interesting discussion of governance over at TN blog.
The premise is to compare Internet to VW governance and see how VWs differ.  Sensible approach (! one I am using!).
Reading it did make me wonder if we are using governance More broadly than it is usually used.  The post author, Ren Reynolds, is looking [...]

Politics inside or outside the magic circle?

The magic circle seems a key concept in virtual worlds and gaming.  For origin of the term from Huzinga, see here.
The wikipedia article, in summarizing Castronova’s arguments, states:
Even though there are political activities inside synthetic worlds, it is interesting to note that “debates, which really do involve legitimate political interests, almost always occur outside the [...]