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Week 12 – Online Worlds
Katie Freund
Email:fanthropology@gmail.com Twitter:katiedigcScribd:nushanaBlog:Fanthropology 
 
Definition
•Castronova 2005: Synthetic world: “Anexpansive, world-like, large-group environmentmade by humans, for humans, and which ismaintained, recorded, and rendered by acomputer.”•Boellstorff 2008: “A place of human culturerealized by a computer program through theInternet”
 
History
•Predecessors:▫Role-playing gameslike
 Dungeons and  Dragons
▫Self-contained virtual worlds like
 Sim City
(1993)
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