University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

This book is the product of my own scholarship. It combines elements of oral history and discourse analysis in order to create a descriptive account of an online community that is significant to me personally as well as an interesting moment of “participatory culture” in the early twenty-first century. The last chapter attempts to recapitulate the descriptive account of the rest of the book as a role-playing game, in a way that asks the reader to seriously consider the epistemic value of game design.