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Henry Lowood
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Stanford University
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The New Everyday
Forbidden Areas: The Hidden Archive of a Virtual World
By
Henry Lowood
Stanford University
March 24, 2012
Forbidden Areas: The Hidden Archive of a Virtual World Game and "virtual" worlds are artifacts. If you know where to look, you can search inside these "synthetic" worlds (Castronova) and the software that constructs them to find trace ...