PAPER: The first noble truth of cyberspace: People are people even when they moo
Diane Schiano, Sean White

(1998) CHI

keywords: Cyberspace, MUD, virtual communities, social computing


DEF: MUD -- is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games and social instant messaging chat rooms.

-- Paper on large research project designed to characterize life on a MUD.
-- Results in terms of 4 categories: 1) Users and use 2) identity 3) sociality 4) spatiality