t. l. taylor

Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture. The MIT Press, March 2006. hardcover & paperback.

“Internet & Games” in M. Consalvo, C. Ess, R. Burnett (eds.) The Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies, Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming. Copy unavailable, check back for updates.

“The Social Design of Virtual Worlds: Constructing the User and Community Through Code” in M. Consalvo et. al. (eds.), Internet Research Annual Volume 1: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences 2000-2002. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. [PDF]

“Intentional Bodies: Virtual Environments and the Designers Who Shape Them,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol.19, No.1, 25-34, 2003. [PDF] Abstract This article examines the ways virtual environment software is explicitly designed with particular visions of identity, communication, and community in mind. This social context of software is considered with a particular focus on the [...]

“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.