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        Two Famous Case Studies
        of MUDs and MOOs

        • (1) Gender Swapping: The Case of Sanford Lewin
        • (2) Virtual Rape: Mr Bungle

        (1) Gender Swapping: The Case of Sanford Lewin

          The Text

          • 'In Novel Conditions: The Cross-Dressing Psychiatrist': Allucquère (Sandy) Stone. In Allucquère (Sandy) Stone (1996): The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp.65-81; Online version for my students

          Commentaries

          • 'Transvestite Performances: From the Bard to the BBS': Theresa M Senft
          • 'The Role of Fantasy in the Construction of the On-line Other: a selection of interviews and participant observations from cyberspace': Robin B Hamman
          • 'Cyborgasms: Cybersex Amongst Multiple-Selves and Cyborgs in the Narrow-Bandwidth Space of America Online Chat Rooms': Robin B Hamman; Alternate
          • 'Gender Swapping on the Internet': Amy S Bruckman

          Related Links

          • 'Violation and Virtuality: Two cases of physical and psychological boundary transgression and their implications': Allucquère (Sandy) Stone (Chapter 2 in The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, pp. 45-64; Alternate
          • Reviews of The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age: Gerald Wagner

        (2) Virtual Rape: Mr Bungle

          The Text

          • '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': Julian Dibbell (original version from The Village Voice, December 21, 1993, pp. 36-42); Alternate; Alternate; Alternate; Alternate
          • 'A Rape in Cyberspace': Julian Dibbell (updated version)

          Commentaries

          • Some Questions to Consider about 'A Rape in Cyberspace'
          • 'Virtual Rape': Richard MacKinnon

          Related Links

          • 'Johnny Manhattan Meets the Furry Muckers': Josh Quittner (Hotwired 2.03, March 1994); Alternate


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