Sims
December 12, 2003 07:43 PM
Salon has got an interesting article about Peter Ludlow's work with The Sims Online, and the ethical issues such virtual worlds bring up.
Raking muck in “The Sims Online”:“[These virtual worlds] are a strange sort of commercial space where communities come to exist, but there’s a tension between the communities and the private commercial company,” says Julian Dibbell … “It’s similar to what you have with shopping malls. They’re becoming the last refuge of public space for teenagers, but they’re run by companies, and they can kick you out on a whim.”
