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. A contributor to ''2GQ'' (now '' New Oregon Arts & Letters''), '' FringeWare Review'', ''

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's ''High Noon on the Electronic Frontier'',humdog (1996) "Pandora's Vox", ''High Noon on the Electronic Frontier'', p.437. Ludlow, Peter, ed. . and ''How to Mutate and Take Over the World'', she was a participant in many online communities including early

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s and

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s such as

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s, and later activities such as ''

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''. In 1994 she published a widely influential essay online, "Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace",Introducing Humdog: Pandora’s Vox Redux
, ''Folksonomy.co''. OR 05/05/2004.

, ''AlphavilleHerald.com'' (formerly ''Second Life Herald''). in which she argued that the result of

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s had led to, not a reduction in

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of personality and a complex transfer of power and information to companies.

Selected work

*"Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace" (1994) *"Veni Redemptor: The Metallic Masks of God" (1997) *"The History of the Board Ho" (2004) *"A rant: Sex in Gaming" (2005) *"Confessions of a

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Slave" (2006) Hermosillo, Carmen (22 February 2006).
Confessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 2
, ''The Second Life Herald''. *"Roleplay and the

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in Virtual Worlds" (unfinished)

References

External links

*Hermosillo, Margarite (2010).
Zero Dark Thirty: The Last Days of Carmen Hermosillo
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The Alphaville Herald ''The Alphaville Herald'' is an online newspaper covering virtual worlds, founded by the American philosopher Peter Ludlow in 2003. History ''The Alphaville Herald'' was established by the American philosopher Peter Ludlow, known by his pseudo ...

''. April 25. *Ludlow, Peter (08/15/2008).
Remembering Carmen Hermosillo
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