Carmen Hermosillo Explained

Carmen Hermosillo (died August 10, 2008^{[1] [2]}), A.K.A. humdog, was a community manager/research analyst,^{[3] [4]} essayist, and poet. A contributor to 2GQ (now New Oregon Arts & Letters), FringeWare Review, wired, and Leonardo, Peter Ludlow's High Noon on the Electronic Frontier,^[5] and How to Mutate and Take Over the World,^[6] she was a participant in many online communities including early chat rooms and internet forums such as The WELL, BBSs, and later activities such as Second Life.

In 1994 she published a widely influential essay online, "Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace",^[7] in which she argued that the result of computer networks had led to, not a reduction in hierarchy, but actually a commodification of personality and a complex transfer of power and information to companies.^[8]

Selected work

• "Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace" (1994)^{[5] [7]}
• "Veni Redemptor: The Metallic Masks of God" (1997)
• "The History of the Board Ho" (2004) ^[9]
• "A rant: Sex in Gaming" (2005)
• "Confessions of a Gorean Slave" (2006) ^{[10] [11]}
• "Roleplay and the Social Contract in Virtual Worlds" (unfinished)

External links

• Hermosillo, Margarite (2010). "Zero Dark Thirty: The Last Days of Carmen Hermosillo". The Alphaville Herald. April 25.
• Ludlow, Peter (08/15/2008). "Remembering Carmen Hermosillo", AlphavilleHerald.com.

Notes and References

1. [Mark Stephen Meadows|Meadows, Mark Stephen]
2. [Tiffany Lee Brown|Brown, Tiffany Lee]
3. "carmen hermosillo", LinkedIn.com.
4. "Avatars 97 Speakers", CCon.org.
5. humdog (1996) "Pandora's Vox", High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, p.437. Ludlow, Peter, ed. .
6. [R. U. Sirius]
7. "Introducing Humdog: Pandora’s Vox Redux", Folksonomy.co. OR 05/05/2004. "Introducing Humdog: Pandora’s Vox Redux", AlphavilleHerald.com (formerly Second Life Herald).
8. [Adam Curtis|Curtis, Adam]
9. Hermosillo, Carmen (5 August 2004). "The History of the Board Ho", The Second Life Herald.
10. Hermosillo, Carmen (22 February 2006). "Confessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 1", The Second Life Herald.
11. Hermosillo, Carmen (22 February 2006). "Confessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 2", The Second Life Herald.