If people are interested in emerging work on MMOGs and online game play cultures this might be of interest…
Aphra.
”Carnegie Mellon University’s Project Massive has released the second
wave of results from their ongoing research examining the massively
multiplayer online gamer and has launched the third survey.
Like Nick Yee’s work, the team aims to understand what draws people to these thriving virtual realitieis, what keeps ’em there and what happens to
their real lives while they’re kicking around in digital utopia.’
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/smart_stuff/2005/04/project_massive_looks_at_gamers_offline_lives.html