Virtual worlds such as Second Life (SL), imagined and created by their online users, are growing in popularity. And contrary to what many people think, they’re not just about sex, a release from social constraints and an escape from reality. These aspects of SL do exist, as do many of the familiar features of capitalism in the ‘real world’. But there is another side to SL that is also growing – its educational, protest and activist uses.
I artikeln My activist Second Life på Red Pepper skriver SLLU-medlemmen Neil Scott alias Plot Tracer om sin in world-aktivism. Lagom läsning på söndagsmorgonen. Läs hela artikeln HÄR.
Towards the computational study of the Roman economy: draft
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I’m contributing to a volume on ‘Land and Natural Resources in the Roman
World’. Below is my draft, on which I welcome comments and questions.
Towards the...
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