‘Free yourself!’ An inquiry into moral life in Second Life
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The question to what extent computer-mediated virtuality affects our moral condition has preoccupied numerous philosophers (see e.g. Cavalier 2005; van den Hoven & Weckert 2008; Søraker 2011). “A rape in cyberspace” (Dibbell 1993) is a much-cited text on ‘virtual morality,’ as it was the first article that dealt with the repercussions of virtual harm. Throughout the article Dibbell reports on how Mr. Bungle raped two residents in LambdaMOO. Academic scholars and non-academic authors intensively elaborated on the incident, drawing most attention to the status of virtual rape, virtual harm, and performative language (see e.g. Rheingold 1993; Powers 2003).
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