Re: [xmca] online games as tools for sociability

check out the internet group called TerraNova.
This topic is very hot.
mike

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Luiz Carlos Baptista <
lucabaptista@fcsh.unl.pt> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been missing for quite a while, lost in the jungle of Philosophy of
> Language. But now I want to embark on a new research project. I am about
> to
> start studying online games, which I see as tools for sociability (in
> Georg
> Simmel's sense). As some of you may know, there is a growing literature on
> ethnographical and sociological accounts of this phenomenon, and I intend
> to
> draw on this work in order to pursue a philosophically oriented research,
> dealing also with issues such as make-believe, joint pretense, distributed
> cognition and the intermingling of "real" and "fictional" objects and
> characters.
>
> I am just finishing collecting the relevant material and hope to start
> working on it in the next few weeks. I would appreciate any suggestions
> you
> might make, as well as info about good places to pursue this kind of
> research (since I am interested in working abroad).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Luiz Carlos Baptista
>
> **********
> "The brain is a wonderful thing. Everybody should have one."
>
> Luiz Carlos Baptista
>
> Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem
> Universidade Nova de Lisboa
> Av. de Berna, 26-C
> 1069-061 Lisboa
> Portugal
>
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