Julian Dibbell
/dɨˈbɛl/; born February 23, 1963) is an American author and technology journalist with a particular interest in social systems within online communities. His 1993 article "A Rape in Cyberspace"[1] detailed attempts of LambdaMOO, an online community, to quantify and deal with lawbreaking in its midst. The article was later included in Dibbell's book, My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. Additionally, Dibbell has chronicled the evolution of online worlds for Wired Magazine, and has written about his attempt to make a living playing MMORPGs in the book Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot.Dibbell is a non-resident fellow of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.[2] and he previously served as George A. Miller Visiting Professor of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3] Dibbell is also a founder of the academic gaming research blog Terra Nova.
Dibbell was born in New York City. He grew up in Claremont, California and resides in Chicago, Illinois. Dibbell is currently attending the University of Chicago Law School, where he is a member of the University of Chicago Law Review.[4]
Works
- Dibbell, Julian. My Tiny Life: crime and passion in a virtual world. Owl Books, 1999. ISBN 0-8050-3626-1
- Dibbell, Julian. Play Money: or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot. Basic Books, 2006. ISBN 0-465-01535-2
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