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<H2>Week 10 - April 1 -- Identity and Community </H2>
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<H2>April 1 -- Guest Speaker: Stacy Horn
<BR>Founder of <A HREF="http://www.echonyc.com/">Echo</A> in New York
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Founded in 1990, Echo was the first virtual
community to take hold in New York City. Before
there was a "Silicon Alley," before the World
Wide Web, before WIRED, Echo was home to a
small but vibrant collective of people who
shared common passions for reading, writing
and conversation. Today, Echo, which is over
40% female, is a thriving electronic salon of
over 3,500 members and more than 60
conferences.
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Learn more about Echo by visiting their webpage at
<A HREF="http://www.echonyc.com">http://www.echonyc.com</A>
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<H3>Read</H3>
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<LI>
<A HREF="http://www.echonyc.com/~women/Issue17/lipner.html" target="_top">Hearing
the Net: an Interview with Mia Lipner</A> by Cathy Young and Theresa
Senft, in
<A HREF="http://www.echonyc.com/~women" target="_top">Women &
Performance</A>, Issue 17,
9:1, 1996 (this brief article is on reserve in the library). There is also
a tape to listen to that accompanies it.
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<H3>Recommended Reading</H3>
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<LI><B><I>Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an
Online Town</I></B> by Stacy Horn
<LI>"Habitat" by Farmer and Morningstar, in <I><B>Cyberspace: First
Steps</B></I> by Benedikt, 1993.
<LI><B><I>City of Bits</I></B>, by William Mitchell, 1995.
<LI>"Creating a Real Group in a Virtual World" by
Gerald Phillips, 1995.
<LI><B><I>No Sense of Place: the Impact of Electronic Media on
Social Behavior</I></B> by Joshua Meyrowitz, 1985.
<LI>"The limits of community" in <I><B>Talking Tombstones and
Other Tales of the Media</B></I> by Gary Gumpert, 1987.
<LI><A HREF="http://shum.huji.ac.il/jcmc/vol1/issue4/vol1no4.html"
target="_top">
Making Friends in Cyberspace</A> by Malcom Parks and Kary Floyd, 1996,
at http://shum.huji.ac.il/jcmc/vol1/issue4/vol1no4.html.
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<A HREF="http://www.well.com/user/hlr/vcbook/" target="_top">
Virtual Community: Homesteading
on the Electronic Frontier</A> by Howard Rheingold,
1993, at
http://www.well.com/user/hlr/vcbook
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<H3>Online Communities</H3>
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<A HREF="http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/Words-L/" target="_top">
Worlds-L homepage</A> at http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/Words-L/.
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<A HREF="http://www.srv.net/~30plus/" target="_top">
#30plus homepage</A> at http://www.srv.net/~30plus/.
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<A HREF="http://irc.ru/channels.html" target="_top">IRC channels</A> with
WWW documentation at http://irc.ru/channels.html
<LI><A HREF="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mhome.html" target="_top">
MUD Homepage Links</A> at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mhome.html
<LI><A HREF="http://www.well.com/user/hlr/wotizit.html"
target="_top">Brainstorms</A>,
an experiment in community futurism by Howard Rheingold at
http://www.well.com/user/hlr/wotizit.html
<LI><A HREF="http://rdz.stjohns.edu/~storm/" target="_top">The Psychology
of Virtual
Communities </A> by Storm King who studies ESGs (electronic support
groups). Look through his links at http://rdz.stjohns.edu/~storm/
<LI><A HREF="http://www.well.com/user/hlr/virtcom" target="_top">
Howard Rheingold's Links to Virtual Worlds Resources</A> at
http://www.well.com/usr/hlr/virtcom
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<H3>Assignment</H3>
Listen to <b>Requiem Digitatem</b>, a cassette by Mia Lipner (on reserve
in the library) and read
<A HREF="http://www.echonyc.com/~women/Issue17/lipner.html" target="_top">
Hearing the
Net</A> (on reserve in the library). Report to the
impacts list your thoughts on this cassette, and do some online research
on resources for internet users with special needs and disabilities.
Include addresses and urls in your report.
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<H3>Due Date reminders</H3>
<B>Monday, March 30:</B> search findings on Intellectual Property and
definition from the Jargon file (see March 9 for details)
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<B>Monday, April 6:</B> IRC/webpage/list analysis of the function of
multiple platforms (see Feb 18 for details)
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<B>Monday, April 13:</B> analysis of the construction of identities on
homepages (see March 2 for details)
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