t. l. taylor

Review of Dennis Waskul’s Self-Games and Body-Play: Personhood in Online Chat and Cybersex (New York: Peter Lang, 2003). Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 33, No.6, 680-681. 2003. Copy unavailable.

Review of Tim Jordan’s Cyberpower: The Culture and Politics of Cyberspace and the Internet (London: Routledge, 1999). Contemporary Sociology, Vol.31, No.3, 290-291. 2002. Copy unavailable.

“Living Digitally: Embodiment in Virtual Worlds” in R. Schroeder (ed.), The Social Life of Avatars: Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments. London: Springer-Verlag, 2002. [PDF]

“‘Whose Game Is This Anyway?’”: Negotiating Corporate Ownership in a Virtual World” in F. Mäyrä (ed.), Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference Proceedings. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 2002. Copy unavailable. Please refer to the chapter in my book Play Between Worlds for most up to date version of the argument. Note: The request to “contact [...]

Everyday Experiences of Avatar Environments, co-author Nina Wakeford. Commissioned by the University of Southern California’s Integrated Media Systems Center, 2002. Copy unavailable.

“Life in Virtual Worlds: Plural Existence, Multi-modalities, and Other Online Research Challenges,” American Behavioral Scientist, Vol.43, No.3, 435-449, 1999. [PDF] Abstract Virtual environments present researchers with a range of methodological considerations, both new  and old. With the advent of embodied online worlds, experiences with distributed presence, anonymity and multiple modes of engagement increasingly become the [...]

Virtual Environments for Education: Platform Review. Report for the National Science Foundation education and virtual environments grant project at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, Department of Sociology, 1996. Copy unavailable.