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Between Entities and Identities: The Internet of Egregores

Exploring the concept of egregores, the text examines how collective online identities and fandoms manifest as influential forces within digital platforms, shaping social dynamics and individual experiences in the digital landscape.

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Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse

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"Multiplayer media” represents the next frontier for creativity and collaboration. The greatest novel of the next century, the most immaculate film or game, will be architected by vast, opt-in networks. Rather than involving a few dozen contributors, thousands will participate, creating something closer to an artistic MMPORG rather than a humble gu... See more

Mario Gabriele • Multiplayer Media | The Generalist

something I try to keep in mind when writing about online communities is that they’re (usually) filled with real, complex people. They’re not just weird introverts or shut-ins or people trying to escape reality.

The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse

What you’ve just experienced is an interactive adventure based on the text of my latest history book, The Infernal Machine. At its core, the game relies on three elements: the original text from my book; a large language model (in this case, Gemini Pro 1.5); and a 400-word prompt that I wrote giving the model instructions on how to host the game, b... See more

In fact, the many thousands of players in a realm, whether or not they play together, effectively create their own worlds, transforming each realm into a multiverse.

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

NFT worldbuilding projects on Bankless

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Social media transformed the web into a hall of mirrors in which your own opinions and preferences are distorted and reflected back at you, to the point where any other reality is pitched outside the frame and therefore rendered nonexistent, as long as you have curated your feed correctly. It is like living inside your own head for every hour of th

Steven Hyden • This Isn't Happening

#1: Are.na – The social network antithesis

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