Finally the website of my 'cyberanthropological' research-project "maxmod" has seen the light of day ( URI: xirdal.lmu.de )-- its twin, the accompanying weblog will follow soon. Since 2002 when I started to develope this project I am doing 'thick participation' in an online-community. The core-interest and shared practice of the community's members is the modification of professional computergame software -- "Max Payne" and "Max Payne 2" in particular. Have a look at the abstract and the description of the project (work in progress) if you want to learn more about it -- how it's done, what are the goals, what is the relevance, etc. For everybody interested in doing research on 'cyberculture' my commented, enhanced, and ever growing list of literature may be especially worthwhile -- prey on it!

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