{"id":40,"date":"2003-06-24T18:13:33","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T22:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=40"},"modified":"2003-06-24T18:13:33","modified_gmt":"2003-06-24T22:13:33","slug":"gender-and-everquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Gender and EverQuest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story from the <a title=\"New Scientist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99993864\">New Scientist<\/a> reports on a study that male avatars on EverQuest sold more than female avatars, even taking in consideration equal characteristics.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor the full study see Edward Castronova, <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=415043#\">The Price of &#8216;Man&#8217; and &#8216;Woman&#8217;: A Hedonic Pricing Model of Avatar Attributes in a Synthetic World<\/a>. Why doesn&#8217;t this surprise us? <\/p>\n<p>What is surprising is how research into virtual worlds could become a form of sociology by reflection. The study of the virtual culture, a study which is easier to do than real field work, substitutes for the study of the real. Isn&#8217;t that what we do when we study culture through literature?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story from the New Scientist reports on a study that male avatars on EverQuest sold more than female avatars, even taking in consideration equal characteristics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}