Spoke about the history of virtual currencies
Spoke about the history of virtual currencies at the Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance.
Spoke about the history of virtual currencies at the Oxford-Man Institute for Quantitative Finance.
Geographies of gold farming: New research on the third-party gaming services industry. A blog post summarizing early findings from our new research project.
Online labour markets – leveling the playing field for international service markets? Paper presented at IPP2014 Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy, 25-26 Sep 2014.
Situated Crowdsourcing Using a Market Model: a real-world experiment to be presented at the ACM UIST 2014 conference in Hawaii next month (coauthored with Simo Hosio and colleagues)
Presenting early results on geographic structure of online labour markets at the Dynamics of Virtual Work conference in Hatfield today
Speaking in a panel at Ping! Collaborate in Budapest next Thursday about how future content and journalism is financed and/or crowdsourced
Speaking in a panel on “Big Data” about how I use log data from companies in research, at Aboagora, Turku, Finland, 12 August
Blogged about Labour and the Internet: takeaways from the ISA World Congress of Sociology
Pink and Blue Pixel$: Gender and Economic Disparity in Two Massive Online Games published in The Information Society. Analyses gender gaps in EVE Online and EverQuest 2 data.
Next week I will be at the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama. Let me know if you’d like to meet!