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Virtual Power Politics, James Grimmelmann
Virtual Power Politics, James Grimmelmann
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Software-based rules are not automatically normative in virtual worlds. The feature-bug ambiguity always means that the social meaning of the "rules" is subject to negotiation and to political dispute. I illustrate this claim with an analysis of exploits.