Writing in a Culture of Simulation: Ethos Online
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~crmiller/Publications/MillerBrepols01.pdf
  peer-reviewed

Miller, Carolyn R.
North Carolina State University
2002

Abstract:

The MUD Bot Julia and the Turing test can help us understand some things about writing in new technological environments. These environments belong to what Sherry Turkle has called our “culture of simulation” (Turkle, 1997). She takes the term simulation from postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard, who maintains that the proliferation of signs in contemporary society has “imploded” the distinction between the real and the simulated: the world of signs has become “hyperreal,” overwhelming the physical world and replacing it as our primary experience.