She is founder and ArchJanitor of MediaMOO, a MUD designed to enhance professional community amongst media researchers. In her current research she is exploring the potential of MUDs as a learning environment for children. In particular, she is interested in using MUDs to encourage girls to be more interested in computers. Bruckman is with the MIT Media Laboratory. MUDs are constantly being created and destroyed.
Communications technologies have complex interactions.
Social conventions evolve in the context of the complete set of technologies in use, including email, netnews, surface mail, telephones, answering machines, voice mail, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, and the like. Email, netnews, and MUDs have especially complex interactions. A newbie monster is a monster that a low-level player could defeat. This document came from FTP.GAME.ORG, the ultimate source for MUD resources.