Carmen Hermosillo A.K.A. humdog, was a community manager

Community manager

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/research analyst

Financial analyst

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, essayist, and poet

Poet

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. A contributor to 2GQ (now New Oregon Arts & Letters), FringeWare Review

FringeWare Review

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, wired

Wired (magazine)

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, and Leonardo

Leonardo (journal)

Leonardo is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the MIT Press covering the application of contemporary science and technology to the arts and music.- History :...

, Peter Ludlow

Peter Ludlow

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's High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, and How to Mutate and Take Over the World, she was a participant in many online communities including early chat room

Chat room

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s and internet forum

Internet forum

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s such as The WELL

The Well

- Titled works :* The Well , 1986 novel by Elizabeth JolleyMusical albums:* The Well , by Waking Ashland* The Well, 2001, by Jennifer Warnes* The Well, a song from the "Come to the Well" album by christian group Casting Crowns...

, BBS

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s, and later activities such as Second Life

Second Life

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. In 1994 she published a widely influential essay online, "Pandora

Pandora

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's Vox

Voice

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: On Community in Cyberspace", in which she began the argument that the result of computer network

Computer network

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s had led to, not a reduction in hierarchy

Hierarchy

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, but actually a commodification

Commodification

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 of personality and a complex transfer of power and information to companies.

External links

• Ludlow, Peter (08/15/2008). "Remembering Carmen Hermosillo", AlphavilleHerald.com.
• Meadows, Mark Stephen
  Mark Stephen Meadows
  Mark Stephen Meadows is an American author and artist. In addition to his illustration, books, and travelogues he also develops software. He is the co-inventor of several US patents relating to artificial intelligence and avatars, and he lectures internationally on this work.Meadows is known for...
  
  and Ludlow, Peter (09/02/2009). "A Virtual Life. An Actual Death", HPlusMagazine.com.