Julian Dibbell Explained

Julian Dibbell (; born February 23, 1963) is an American author and technology journalist with a focus on social systems within online communities.[1]

Life and career

Dibbell was born in New York City. He grew up in Claremont, California and resides in Chicago, Illinois. His uncle is rock critic Robert Christgau, and Dibbell has also published music criticism.[2] He is a non-resident fellow of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society[3] and he previously served as George A. Miller Visiting Professor of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[4] He is also a founder of the academic gaming research blog Terra Nova.

His 1993 article "A Rape in Cyberspace"[5] detailed attempts of LambdaMOO, an online community, to quantify and deal with lawbreaking in its midst. The article was later included in his first book, My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. Dibbell has also written about Chinese gold farmers for The New York Times Magazine[6] and about griefer culture for "Wired" Magazine.[7] He chronicled his attempt to make a living playing MMORPGs in his second book, Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot.[8] [9]

Dibbell graduated from Yale University, summa cum laude, in 1986. He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School (where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review)[10] in 2014. Dibbell now practices law as an associate in the Business and Technology Sourcing practice of the global law firm Mayer Brown.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Leonard, Andrew (January 22, 1999). The unbearable realness of virtual being. Salon.com
  2. Christgau, Robert (1991). Classic Rock.
  3. Web site: People: Julian Dibbell . 2012-06-11 . Center for Internet and Society . Stanford University.
  4. Web site: Noted technology journalist to help bridge gap between engineers, technology users . https://web.archive.org/web/20100619140109/http://www.csl.uiuc.edu/news/noted-tech-journalist-help-bridge-gap-between-engineers-technology-users-0 . dead . 19 June 2010 . 2012-06-11 . Gudeman . Kim . 25 Feb 2010 . Coordinated Science Laboratory News . University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .
  5. http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html Dibbell, Julian. "A Rape in Cyberspace." The Village Voice 21 Dec 1993.
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/magazine/17lootfarmers-t.html Dibbell, Julian. "The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer." The New York Times Magazine 17 June 2007.
  7. https://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons Dibbell, Julian. "Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World." Wired Magazine 18 Jan 2008.
  8. Web site: Taxing Ones and Zeros: Can the IRS Ignore Virtual Economies? . Tax Analysts . 19 January 2007 . 19 February 2014 . Stamper, Dustin . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924113347/http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Articles/23B6E6BBD4CEBBC38525727300691993. 24 September 2015.
  9. Web site: Online Gaming, Money and Tax Law . NPR . February 10, 2006 . 19 February 2014 . MONTAGNE, RENEE.
  10. Web site: The University of Chicago Law Review Vol. 81 Masthead.
  11. Web site: Mayer Brown Law Firm PRofile.

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