Thomas M. Malaby

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that games are domains of contrived contingency, capable of generating emergent practices and interpretations, and are intimately connected with everyday life to a degree heretofore poorly understood.

TL;DR: In this article, Malaby spent a year at Linden Lab, the real-world home of Second Life, observing those who develop and profit from the sprawling, self-generating system they have created.

TL;DR: In this article, it has been shown that people within virtual worlds produce commodities and currencies with market value, whereas other work has shown that players in real-world games produce commodities with market values.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a model for understanding capital in all its manifestations: material, social, and cultural in virtual worlds, and explore how actors within them transform, or parlay, these forms from one into the other.

TL;DR: Karakasidou as discussed by the authors explores the economic, political, and cultural history of a township, Assiros (including a few outlying communities), in Northern Greece using a combination of local archival resources, oral life histories, and her day-to-day encounters with the complex modes of self-presentation and ascription that Assiriotes employed to make claims of national descent.