We'd like to welcome Dmitri Williams to the merry Terra Nova hivemind. Dmitri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies online behavior from a communication theory point of view. While this means he's done some aggression work, his primary interests are the social impacts of online games and virtual communities (check out his two current courses here). His publication list is impressive and extensive (available here) and Ren even blogged about his dissertation here a while back. But his real credential is his level 48 gnome rogue on the WoW Illidan server that stalks n00bie g4nk3rs...
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Jan 19, 2005
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Ahoy there matey welcome aboard!
Ren
Posted by: ren | Jan 19, 2005 at 17:28
woot
TN just leveled up.
Posted by: Edward Castronova | Jan 19, 2005 at 20:45
Hiya! It'll be nice to get some more talks about the communities and social issues :)
and two thumbs up for getting those g4nk3rs... :)
Posted by: Cenn | Jan 20, 2005 at 04:13
TN just leveled up.
Yeehaa! Welcome Dmitri! Lets go launch some powered up brain farts at the non-beardies.
Posted by: Jim Purbrick | Jan 20, 2005 at 06:36
Allow me to join the welcomin chorus. Your thesis looks interesting, will download and read. Cheers!
Anders Tychsen
Posted by: Anders Tychsen | Jan 20, 2005 at 20:45
Welcome Dmitri! Downloading your dissertation as I type. Looking forward to your posts.
Posted by: Betsy Book | Jan 20, 2005 at 22:43
Can't wait to read more.
Posted by: daniel harvey | Jan 23, 2005 at 21:31