English 285 Online Readings

Assigned Readings

• "A Rape in Cyberspace, or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society," by Julian Dibbell

Additional Readings

• "'help manners': Frontier Tales of Two MOOs" by Charles J. Stivale
• Spoof, Spam, Lurk and Lag: the Aesthetics of Text-based Virtual Realities by Lee-Ellen Marvin