came across some old virtual identify links

"Virtual Communities" and "Viritual Identities"
Articles by: H. Rheingold, S. Turkle, M. Slouka
http://www.abacon.com/vitanza/cyber/ch2.html

Virtual Environments for Education, Research and Life
http://tecfa.unige.ch/moo/paris96/papers/daniel.html

Virtual Playground: Architectures for a Shared Virtual World
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/publications/r-98-12/

Howard Rhiengold's Virtual Reality (interview)
http://www.cyberstage.org/archive/cstage11/hlr11.html

Book by Howard Rheingold examines the impact of the online world on political liberties, and
on real world experiences.
http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/

Getting the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue1/paccagnella.html

Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community
http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html

Did I mention I am reading this at present?
Inhabiting the Virtual City: The Design of Social Environments for Electronic Communities
http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Thesis/

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one recent additon
http://www.smartmobs.com/

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