Speaker Profile
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Julian Dibbell Journalist and Author |
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Julian Dibbell has been writing about digital networks and their cultural fallout for over a decade. His articles and essays — on subjects ranging from hacker subcultures to blogger aesthetics to the politics of virtual rape — have appeared in The Village Voice, Time, Feed, Wired, and many other publications, both online and off, and have been reprinted in Best American Science Writing 2002 (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2002), Reading Digital Culture (Blackwell, 2001), Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture (Duke University Press, 1994), and other anthologies. He is the author of My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (Henry Holt, 1998), about the text-based online role-playing game LambdaMOO, Play Money (Basic Books), about his year-long attempt to make a living in the virtual economies of massively multiplayer online games. In 2002-2003, he was a visiting fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, where he and Lawrence Lessig co-taught a course on the social structures of virtual worlds. He is now a contributing editor at Wired magazine. |
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Guest Speaker at the following State of Play conferences...
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