This section lists the many research papers, newspaper articles, and other writings available from the Communications, VR, 3D and related archives. After each entry, there is a link to the actual text, along with the file size (and in some cases links to off-site sources). If the paper is available in multiple formats, each format has a different link. I've tried to be as accurate as possible with all the entries. If you find any errors, or would like a paper added, please send me feedback.

• Virtual Communities
• Chats, IRC
• MUDs
• MOOs

Papers not added in yet, in like, years:

• NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN TEXT BASED VIRTUAL REALITIES by John T. Masterson, III
• Cyberculture nonfiction by Julian Dibbell
• A uses and gratifications study of the internet social interaction site LambdaMOO: Talking with "Dinos" - John Ryan, Ball State University - "it's a study of 222 of the oldest (in MOO age) users on why they use LambdaMOO and what they use it for, including their thoughts on differences between the MOO and Real Life."
• Cyborgasms: Cybersex Amongst Multiple-Selves and Cyborgs in the Narrow-Bandwidth Space of America Online Chat Rooms - MA Dissertation by Robin B. Hamman, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
• One Hour in the eWorld Hot Tub: a brief ethnographic project in cyberspace - Robin Hamman, University of Essex, Dept. of Sociology
• The most recent editions of the Habitat and Cyberspace papers can be found at http://www.communities.com/
• MUDS in scientific conferencing, John Towell, Ph.D.
• Living inside the (operating) system: Community in virtual reality (draft), by John Unsworth
• Constructing the Virtual Campus, by John Unsworth
• Terrorism in Cyberspace
• PMC-MOO stuff
• Richard MacKinnon's Searching for the Leviathan in Usenet
• Richard MacKinnon's "The Social Construction of Rape in Virtual Reality"
• Sample chapter from _MUDs: Exploring Virtual Worlds on the Internet_ by David Ciskowski and Claire Benedikt. Copywrite Macmillan Publishing, April 1995
• "TinySex is Safe Sex" by Claire Benedikt Copywrite Infobahn Magazine, June 1995
• "The Computer Writing and Research Laboratory's MUD Information Center" by Claire Benedikt and Mafalda Stasi
• The gratifications of the Internet: A pilot study.
• The Zephyr Help Instance: Promoting Ongoing Activity in a CSCW System

Other resources you may find relevant:

• The Computer-Mediated Communication Studies Center
• CMC Magazine