Nicholas Yee

Nicholas Yee website, about MMO Social interaction and Addiciton:
http://www.nickyee.com/index-daedalus.html

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‘The familiar will always remain the likely starting point
for the rendering of the unfamiliar […].’
—— E. H. Gombrich

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Overview of some themes and articles:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/kollock/papers/communities_00.htm

An great pesimistic look at Second Life

http://valleywag.com/tech/second-life/a-story-too-good-to-check-221252.php

Another great blog about SL:
http://www.sirkin.com/nonprofit_emarketing/labels/secondlife.html

More information

Cybersickness: http://www.cybersickness.org/web_index.htm
Mark Poster: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/writings/internet.html
Fear over being too technogolised: http://www.technorealism.org/
The virtual community online Rheingold: http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/