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<H2>Week 10 - March 30 -- Identity and Community </H2>
Social uses of the net affect family, friendships, work, and
education. Many groups that form online, also meet face to face.
Many groups utilize multiple platforms for communication. An irc
channel may have a home page and an email list. How do people
utilize different mediums of communication to form group identity?
How do notions the of "virtual reality" (VR) and "real life" (RL) or
"real world" (RW) interact and inform each other?
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<H3>Read</H3>
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<LI> "On the Internet" - Section III of
<I><B>Life on the Screen</I></B> by Sherry Turkle, 1996
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<H3>Recommended</H3>
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<LI>
<A HREF="http://shum.huji.ac.il/jcmc/vol1/issue2/vol1no2.html">
From <Bonehead> to <cLoNehEAd>: Nicknames, Play
and Identity on Internet Relay Chat</A> by Haya Bechar-Israeli,
in <I>JCMC</I> Volume 1 Issue 2, 1995.
Located at http://shum.huji.ac.il/jcmc/vol1/issue2/vol1no2.html.
<LI>"The Strange Case of
the Electronic Lover," by Lindsay van Gelder, in
<I><B>Talking to Strangers: Mediated Therapeutic
Communication</I></B>, 1990, edited by Gary Gumpert and
Sandra L. Fish.
<LI>"pandora's vox: on community in cyberspace" by humdog in <I><B>High
Noon
on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace</I></B> edited
by Peter Ludlow, 1996.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.ntu.ac.uk/soc/psych/miller/goffman.htm">
The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life: Goffman on the Internet</A>
by Hugh Miller, at
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/soc/psych/miller/goffman.htm.
<LI>
<A
HREF="http://www.atg.apple.com/personal/Tom_Erickson/SocialHypertext.html">
The World Wide Web as Social Hypertext</A> by Tom Erickson,
<I>Communications of the ACM</I>, January, 1996. Located at
http://www.atg.apple.com/personal/Tom_Erickson/SocialHypertext.html.
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<H3>Social research on the net about the net</H3>
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<LI><A HREF="http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~mscmcp/">
Studies in Culture and Communication on the Internet</A>,
Brenda Danet, The Hebrew University. At
http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~mscmc/
<LI><A HREF="www.columbia.edu/~hauben/index.html">
Michael Hauben's Domain</A>, Michael Hauben,
Columbia University,
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/
<LI>
<A HREF="http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/">JCMC:
Journal
of Computer Mediated Communication</A>, edited by Sheizaf Rafaeli and
Margaret McLaughlin, The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem and the University of Southern California.
At http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/. Check out
their <A HREF="http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/">CiteSite</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/media.html">Media and Communications
Studies</A>, Daniel Chandler, University of Wales.
At http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/media.html. Note the collection
of papers on social identity
<LI><A HREF="http://www.communities.com/paper/">Electric
Communities</A>.
At http://www.communities.com/paper/
<LI><A HREF="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/anthro/cyberanthro/newhome.html">
Seeker1's CyberAnthropology HomePage</A>, Steve Mizrach, University of
Florida. At http://www.clas.ufl.edu/anthro/cyberanthro/newhome.html
<LI>
<A HREF="http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/asb/MediaMOO/">MediaMoo</A>,
Amy Bruckman, the Media Lab at MIT,
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/people/asb/MediaMOO/
<LI>
<A HREF="http://cios.llc.rpi.edu/">CIOS/Comserve
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship</A>,
Timothy Stephen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
at http://cios.llc.rpi.edu/
<LI>
<A HREF="http://weber.ucsd.edu/~pagre/111-home.html">
Communication and Computers</A>, Phil Agre, University of California San
Diego, http://weber.ucsd.edu/~pagre/111-home.html
<LI>
<A HREF="http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html">CMC Study
Center</A> by John December at
http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html</A>
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<H3>Assignments Due</H3>
<B>Monday, March 30:</B> search findings on Intellectual Property and
definition from the Jargon file
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<B>Monday, April 6:</B> IRC/webpage/list analysis of the functions of
multiple platforms
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<B>Monday, April 13:</B> analysis of the construction of identities on
homepages
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