I stumbled across this very interesting blog. This post is about an online protest that occured in one of the largest MMORPs in China. It had to do with a player whose avatar was deemed offensive and jailed until her agreed to change it. This resulted in a massive (+60,000 players?) protest of this that was also somehow related to deteriorating Chinese-Japanese relations...This is the kind of 'civic efficacy' that social studies is supposed to foster...
On a different note, this article in the online journal Game Studies describes a MMORP that had as its goal the manipulation of eToys stock price (within the game itself) and how players sought to accomplish this...Sounds like economic education to me...
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