Profile

Thomas Malaby is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has published numerous works on virtual worlds, games, practice theory, risk, and mortality. His principal research interest is in the relationships among modernity, unpredictability, and technology, particularly as they are realized through games and game-like processes. He is currently writing Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life, an ethnography of Linden Lab and its relationship to its creation, Second Life. It examines how ethics are encoded and emergent in the production of complex online synthetic worlds and the implications of this for governance and modern institutions. He is also a featured author at the  Terra Nova blog.

 

 

Web Presence

Terra Nova (blog)

Faculty Profile

SSRN Publications Page

Selected Publications

• Gambling Life: Dealing in Contingency in a Greek City. University of Illinois  Press, 2003.
• Stopping Play: A New Approach to Games.