'identity' Tag

• There Is No Cabal: An Investigation into Wikipedia’s Legal Subculture

  May 31, 2007

  An investigation into the community formed by small number of Wikipedia contributors who care enough to decide how, at some level, Wikipedia is run. The work discusses identity, communication, and organizational hierarchy in this subculture.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger

• Response: Patchwork Girl by Shelly Jackson

  April 12, 2007

  This is a response to they hypertext fiction work Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson.  It is comprised in part of ‘patches’ of other works, most notably Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.  I have made this essay entirely out of parts from the novel.

  posted in Reviews and Responses by R. Stuart Geiger

• Notions of Identity Liberation in Virtual Gaming Communities

  May 5, 2006

  The vast worlds of MMORPGs seem close to postmodern theories of identity, as a player is able to radically constitute their on-line self at will. Despite this, these virtual gaming communities should not be seen as safe spaces in which a subject can realize their true (or ideal) self.

  posted in Academic Works, Unpublished by R. Stuart Geiger