Carmen Hermosillo (died August 10, 2008[1][2]), also known as humdog, wolftone, Montserrat Snakeankle, Sparrowhawk Perhaps,[3] was a community manager/research analyst,[4][5] essayist, and poet. A contributor to 2GQ (now New Oregon Arts & Letters), FringeWare Review, wired, and Leonardo, Peter Ludlow's High Noon on the Electronic Frontier,[6] and How to Mutate and Take Over the World,[7] she was a participant in many online communities including early chat rooms and internet forums such as The WELL, BBSs, and later activities such as Second Life.
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In 1994 she published a widely influential essay online, "Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace",[8] in which she argued that the result of computer networks had led to, not a reduction in hierarchy, but actually a commodification of personality and a complex transfer of power and information to companies.[9]
Selected work
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edit- ^ Meadows, Mark Stephen and Ludlow, Peter (09/02/2009). "A Virtual Life. An Actual Death", HPlusMagazine.com.
- ^ Brown, Tiffany Lee (08/13/2008). "Carmen Hermosillo: humdog in Memoriam Archived September 30, 2011, at the Wayback Machine", 2GQ.org.
- ^ Goffman, Ken (March 30, 2018). "A Virtual Life. An Actual Death". Mondo 2000. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
- ^ "carmen hermosillo", LinkedIn.com.
- ^ "Avatars 97 Speakers", CCon.org.
- ^ a b humdog (1996) "Pandora's Vox", High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, p.437. Ludlow, Peter, ed. ISBN 0-262-62103-7.
- ^ R. U. Sirius, St. Jude, and the Internet 21 (1996). How to Mutate and Take Over the World. ISBN 978-0-345-39216-9.
- ^ a b "Introducing Humdog: Pandora’s Vox Redux", Folksonomy.co. OR 05/05/2004. "Introducing Humdog: Pandora’s Vox Redux", AlphavilleHerald.com (formerly Second Life Herald).
- ^ Curtis, Adam (2011). All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, episode 1. 35'55".
- ^ Hermosillo, Carmen (5 August 2004). "The History of the Board Ho", The Second Life Herald.
- ^ Hermosillo, Carmen (22 February 2006). "Confessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 1", The Second Life Herald.
- ^ Hermosillo, Carmen (22 February 2006). "Confessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 2", The Second Life Herald.
External links
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- Hermosillo, Margarite (2010). "Zero Dark Thirty: The Last Days of Carmen Hermosillo". The Alphaville Herald. April 25.
- Ludlow, Peter (08/15/2008). "Remembering Carmen Hermosillo", AlphavilleHerald.com.