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In this episode I talk with Rachel Kowert about friendships and other relationships formed in online games. Can these kinds of friendships substitute for offline relationships? Are they better or worse in some ways?   About the podcast:

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Whazzat

Good. Sherry Turkle's "Reclaiming Conversation" goes long on how virtual relationship displaces contact from another direction. "Attachment theorists may not be our friends" Mary Ainsworth

Whazzat

Rachel sure sounds Lancastrian!

Jamie Madigan

Ha, pretty sure she's American, living in Canada.