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State of Play VI: Speakers' Bios
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Thomas Malaby
Associate Professor of Anthropology
College of Letters & Science
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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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
- Beyond Play: A New Approach to Games (In Preparation)
- Control & Contingency Online.
- Introduction to "Command Lines: The Emergence of Governance Online" Sandra Braman and Thomas Malaby, eds. (In Preparation)
- "Parlaying Value: Capital in and beyond Virtual Worlds" Games & Culture (Sage - Spring 2006)
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