{"id":139,"date":"2004-05-14T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T20:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2004-05-14T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T20:35:54","slug":"social-issues-of-online-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/139","title":{"rendered":"Social issues of online gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href='http:\/\/www.mobilecommunitydesign.com\/'>Mobile Community Design weblog<\/a> comes an interesting presentation on <a href='http:\/\/www.legendmud.org\/raph\/gaming\/smallworlds_files\/frame.htm'>some of the social issues for online gaming<\/a> (unfortunately, the slide show is IE only).   There&#8217;s a basic overview of some of graph theory, and heavy emphasis on human social networks as graphs, and how you can exploit and support said networks for your game.  <\/p>\n<p>Some fascinating slides in the presentation, chock full of information: &#8220;In 1974 Granovetter\u0092s &#8216;Getting a Job&#8217; found that you get most jobs from weak ties, not strong ones, because weak ties inhabit other clusters and therefore have different information&#8221;, the relative size of US cities have been constant since the 1900s, and the actual degrees of separation, from a 1967 experiment, is 5.5, not 6.  <\/p>\n<p>I wish I could have gone to the presentation, since I agree with Mike Clark: <a href='http:\/\/www.clarkware.com\/cgi\/blosxom\/2003\/12\/23#Bulletware'>&#8220;bulletware isn&#8217;t the content of [the] presentation&#8221;<\/a>, and I&#8217;m sure the speaker had plenty of interesting explication of his slides.  If nothing else, though, the five pages of bibliography should provide plenty of future reading material.  <\/p>\n<p>(Also, check out <a href='http:\/\/www.zakon.org\/robert\/internet\/timeline\/'>the Internet timeline<\/a> for images of the Internet&#8217;s growth and more neat graphs.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Mobile Community Design weblog comes an interesting presentation on some of the social issues for online gaming (unfortunately, the slide show is IE only). There&#8217;s a basic overview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}