1 week Hiatus - Heading to Leeds, UK
I am heading over to Leeds, UK for a research fellowship, where I will be speaking about my research on Digital Inequality in China. So I will take a temporary 1 week hiatus (I know i've taken longer unannounced hiatuses - sorry! I'm changing now!) from blogging - but I will definitely post my notes from my talk.
Specifically, I will be talking about how looking at the online virtual gaming world of World of Warcraft, we see the unequal reproduction of material capitalistic relations of labor and production in the in-game and the out-of-game world. I was inspired to look into the research of WoW and Chinese goldfarmers by my friend Jin Ge, who has done amazing field work on the lives of Chinese goldfarmers. thanks Jin Ge for being such a great friend and a great researcher to think with. you are generous with your laughs and your ideas!
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