Julian Dibble article, "A Rape in Cyberspace"

I mentioned Julian Dibble's oft-reprinted essay, "A Rape in Cyberspace" yesterday in Tuesday's class. Some students were interested in reading it for the assignment. Here's a link to it. Although it was written in 1993, much of what it has to say about how virtual societies work still applies. Or you could think about it in terms of how much as changed in cyberspace since the days of "textworlds" like LambdaMOO." Either way, I think you'll find it interesting