Julian Dibbell speaks at RIT April 2 @ 7:30pm

Co-sponsored by Saunders Digital Business Group and RIT’s Lab for Social Computing, Respected Social Computing Author Julian Dibbell speaks on Making Money in Virtual Worlds April 2nd at 7:30pm in Building 6 Room A205

Dibbell will discuss:

LUDOCAPITALISM
A Few Ways of Making Real Money From a Virtual Economy, and What They Mean

In the make-believe realms of massively multiplayer online games
(MMOs) and other virtual worlds, the immaterial objects of players’
desire have become, for some, a source of materially significant
income. In this talk, I revisit my own attempts to profit from the
real-money traffic in virtual goods, teasing out their implications
for a world economy that is everyday more riddled with the stuff –
and the logic — of games.

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