Question

· Howard Rheingold argues that multi-user dungeons/domains (MUDS) provide users a social space in which to construct characters and identities…

· Identify a MUD that was active sometime during the period 1978-1993

· Find a screen shot

· Answer the following questions:

· What was this game about?

· What, if anything, do we know about the people who played this game?

· What kinds of characters did they create?

· Imagining that you were a player, what reasons would you have to be optimistic about the social goods produced by this game?

Q2

· Find and watch a Youtube clip from Sherry Turkle in which she describes her work ‘Alone Together’.

· Based on the video, what are the key issues Turkle addresses in her new book? How does her new focus compare with what you already know of her work?

Q3