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Julian Dibbell (; born February 23, 1963) is an American author and technology
journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...
with a focus on social systems within online communities.Leonard, Andrew (January 22, 1999)
The unbearable realness of virtual being.
Salon.com


Life and career

Dibbell was born in
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. He grew up in
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and resides in
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. His uncle is rock critic
Robert Christgau Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became a ...
, and Dibbell has also published music criticism.Christgau, Robert (1991)
Classic Rock.
/ref> He is a non-resident fellow of the
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and he previously served as George A. Miller Visiting Professor of Media at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...
. He is also a founder of the academic gaming research blog Terra Nova. His 1993 article " A Rape in Cyberspace" detailed attempts of
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, an online community, to quantify and deal with lawbreaking in its midst. The article was later included in his first book, ''My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World''. Dibbell has also written about Chinese gold farmers for ''
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'' and about griefer culture for "
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" Magazine. He chronicled his attempt to make a living playing
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s in his second book, ''Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot''. Dibbell graduated from
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, summa cum laude, in 1986. He graduated from the
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(where he was an editor of the
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) in 2014. Dibbell now practices law as a partner in the Business and Technology Sourcing practice of the global law firm
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.


Works

*Dibbell, Julian. ''My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World''. Owl Books, 1999. *Dibbell, Julian. ''Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot''. Basic Books, 2006. *Dibbell, Julian and Clarisse Thorn. ''Violation: Rape In Gaming''. Amazon CreateSpace, 2012.


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External links


Official site
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