Recent WoW Writings

14 Jan 2009 in Briefly Noted by Alex | 4 comments

I’ve been remiss in promoting myself.

I was recently “featured at WoW Insider”:http://www.wowinsider.com/2009/01/06/15-minutes-of-fame-anthropologist-digs-into-wow/ which has sparked some “other”:http://news.gotgame.com/anthropologist-studies-wow-nerd-rage-and-guild-friendships/23203/ “coverage”:http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/88496-Anthropologist-Studying-Culture-of-WoW-Raiders — some of which even “makes me blush”:http://e4ae.blogspot.com/2009/01/alex-golub-my-new-hero.html. I think I expected a lot of things to happen to me in my life, but a blog post entitled “Alex Golub is my new hero” was certainly not one of them!

I gave a paper about my research on World of Warcraft at the American Anthropological Association meetings in San Francisco in November. It was entitled “Raiding, Its Projects, and Its Publics or, Where Is The World of Warcraft “:http://alex.golub.name/res/Golub%20Raiding%20Projects%20Publics%20AAA%202008.pdf and you can read it just by clicking on it.

Meanwhile the paper about WoW I submitted to a journal six months ago is still mia…. sigh.

  1. Cinnamon’s avatar

    Cinnamon on 14 Jan 2009 at 9:55 pm

    I see a chili pepper in your future! :)

  2. Commander Plaza’s avatar

    Commander Plaza on 15 Jan 2009 at 8:50 am

    Huh, pretty fierce!

  3. Joe’s avatar

    Joe on 15 Jan 2009 at 9:56 am

    Promoting yourself is good if you make something out of the promoting.
    Even if it is just getting people to get some contact with your blog, someone will find something new if you get enough people to look at this.

  4. Josh’s avatar

    Josh on 28 Jan 2009 at 9:00 am

    “Hero” may have been overstating, but I certainly admire you for studying personal interaction in a virtual setting. It’s a personal favorite topic.

    Keep up the good work!