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Henry Lowood
Curator, History of Science & Technology Collections, Film &
Stanford University
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Forbidden Areas: The Hidden Archive of a Virtual World
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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 ...