Rowenna Davis Rowenna Davis is freelance journalist from north London. As a features writer, she specializes in social and political affairs, and has written opinion pieces for the  The Independent, The Guardian, the New Internationalist, and many other publications.

She and I discuss several recent articles were she explored the murky world of “Gold Farming,” which is the illegal world of video game cheating - often for the very popular World of Warcraft.

Link to her article: Welcome to the new gold mines: Being paid to play games all day long sounds like a dream job – but for thousands of Chinese ‘gold farmers’, the virtual reality is sheer hard graft.

More Guardian.co.uk articles by Rowenna Davis.

 
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One Response to “Journalist Rowenna Davis Discusses China’s Illegal “Gold Farms””

  1. five minutes of fame « we own all your shoes Says:
    April 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 am

    […] did find a podcast on umm World of Warcraft gold farming and how omg laborious it is! One-track mind, sorry. I must say it is rather tempting, cough, […]

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