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Re: [Air-l] McLuhan meets the net
by Larry Press 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

> I couldn't get your link to work. > http://localhost/som/articles/macl.htm, Sorry! That was to my local mirror. It is at: http://bpastudio.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/articles/macl.htm Larry

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McLuhan meets the net
by Larry Press 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

> McLuhan. The Medium is the Massage (1967) and his next book War and > Peace in the Global Village (1968). McLuhan predicted that technology > would be an extension of our physical bodies and that electronic > technology would enable us to live in a global village. The Internet was I do not doubt that McLuhan came to his conclusions independently, but folks like JCR Licklider, Doug Engelbart and Vannevar Bush wrote about such things earlier (as did McLuhan). For a discussion of Mcluhan's earlier book, Understanding Media, and the Net see my old article "McLuhan Meets the Net:" http://localhost/som/articles/macl.htm, Larry

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Re: [Air-l] Question about psychological aspects of online games
by Colin Donald 21 Oct '06

21 Oct '06

Hi Janet, Not research, but a blog post self-report from someone who claims he was addicted to World of Warcraft, with dozens of comments: The View From the Top http://soulkerfuffle.blogspot.com/2006/10/view-from-top.html Via Ben Metcalfe's blog post, MMORPG: Time the industry started to act responsibly? http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/18/mmorpg-time-the-industry-s… Might be worth checking in Technorati, Digg etc for other commentators or researchers referencing The View From The Top post. Regards, Colin Donald Editor, JigsawUK - the wiki for British digital media start-ups http://www.jigsawuk.org Internet Futures blog http://if.futurescape.co.uk Live Net Music blog http://www.livenetmusic.com At 20:19 20/10/2006, you wrote: >I am trying to locate research on online games. I am particularly interested in psychological profiles of game players, especially those who become obsessed with games. >Many thanks, >Janet Morahan-Martin >__________________________________________________________________________________ >Janet Morahan-Martin, Ph.D. jmorahan(a)bryant.edu >Professor of Psychology >Bryant University >1150 Douglas Pike >Smithfield RI 02917 USA > > > >_______________________________________________ >The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/

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Croquet Project
by Irina Gendelman 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Hello there, does anyone have any opinion or knowledge about the Croquet Project. I am interested in it's use of spatial visualization to assist collaboration on projects other than gaming (such as editing, creating art, etc.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project irina Irina Gendelman, PhD Candidate Department of Communication University of Washington, Seattle

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A definition of the internet
by Sam Tilden 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

I know this is a trivial question! Does anyone have a really good definition of the Internet. The only ones I have speaks only to the technology. Sam --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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Tuckman
by Sam Tilden 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Does anyone have a copy of Tuckman's "Development Sequence In Small Groups" My library does not have it. Thanks In Advance, Sam --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.

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Re: [Air-l] Reification was Definitions
by Dr. Steve Eskow 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

_____ From: Dr. Steve Eskow [mailto:drseskow@cox.net] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 9:41 AM To: 'Sam Tilden'; 'air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org' Subject: RE: [Air-l] Reification was Definitions Sam, None of us here has the ability or the power to make the term "community" "robust," if by "robust" you mean getting agreement on a single and bounded definition. One scholar found 90 different definitions and usages of the term. Is Paris a "community"? One definition says yes, another says no. Benedict Anderson wrote of the role of newspapers and other media in generating the sense of nationhood: he called his book on the subject IMAGINED COMMUNITIES. In Anderson's view the United States, then, is an "imagined community." I believe it was Howard Rheingold who first coined, or popularized, the term "virtual community." What the term has done, among other things, is call attention to the fact that the Internet is unlike earlier "mass" media that were essentially monologic, broadcasting one to many: the Internet, he showed, was dialogic, allowing for the conversations and the commonalities that characterized (he argued) "community." Before the Internet communities had to involve proximity in space and time: now we could have community without proximity: thus, "virtual communities." The term was widely adopted because it was useful. For many of us, it continues to be useful in pointing to a characteristic of the Internet that makes it different from the broadcast media, and from proximate communities, face-to-face communities. What keeps a locution alive is usefulness, not logic or precision or "robustness." When it ceases to be useful it disappears. Steve Eskow All-new <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=43256/*http:/advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbe ta> Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster.

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pox on APA style
by Barry Wellman 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Someone has praised APA style over MLA. As MLA is about the only style I haven't used, I can't comment. But I hate the first initial fixation of APA. It dehumanizes people to be reduced to B. Wellman from Barry Wellman. Not only that, it is often confusing. For example, my wife and I were once forced to publish a paper APA style as B.S. Wellman and B.S. Wellman. (It did end any debate over priorities, though.) Barry Wellman Just thought I'd divert us from the current rash of pontifications on this list. _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________

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A note on (online) bibliography
by Joseph Reagle 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Comments are welcome! [[ http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/method/note-on-bibliography 2006 Oct 20 | A note on bibliography I'm sharing this note from the beginning of my dissertation so others working with online resources might comment. The type and number of bibliographic sources of this work merit a couple comments. First, most of the primary sources are online, and have only been online. Quotations from e-mail and most exclusively online resources have no page numbers associated with them. Second, many of the printed sources (primary and secondary) are now online. This is common in recent works where authors place versions of a print publication online, or where older works are now in the public domain and have been republished online. In such cases I use the publication date of the version I used. If necessary, I include the original publication date in prose adjacent to the reference, and I include it in the title of the work in the bibliography. For example the bibliographic entry for Project Gutenberg's 2004 republication of H. G. Wells' "A Modern Utopia" would be: Wells, H. (2004). A modern utopia (1905). (6424). Retrieved on September 20, 2006 from < http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/mdntp10h.htm >. The page numbers associated with print-only sources obviously correspond to the printed page. For those sources that are also online, the page number might be associated with the pagination of the printed online resource from which I first took my notes, or the printed material, for which I later found an online copy. I believe it will be clear to the reader which is the case. Third, for some recent sources, there are many publications by the same author in the same year. After a couple of years of experimentation with the software I use to manage this material I have settled upon the convention of identifying such a source by appending a token to the publication year that is composed of the first three substantive words of the title. So, instead of using the letters [a-z], which some bibliographic systems use, my reference for Wikipedia's "Neutral Point of View" article is: (Wikipedia 2006npv). This provides stability across additions/subtractions to the bibliography and across chapters, and is comprehensible to the author and hopefully the reader. Finally, Web sources do change, particularly Wiki pages! Wherever possible I include the date of the version of the resource to which I am referring. Wikimedia resources are also identified by their versioned, "stable" or "permanent," URL. It is possible that I will reference different versions of the same Wiki page. All of this may sound confusing, and it was no easy task coming to this understanding, but in the end I hope it is useful. If the intention of bibliography is to permit the reader to follow the author's journey through the sources, the ready accessibility of online resources is a boon to all. ]]

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Web/TV convergence request
by Nancy Baym 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Hello all, My brother (yes it runs in the family) has a request for references to help him on a project about citizen journalism, especially as it applies to the web influencing TV content. Here is his request, please respond directly to him at the address below as he's not subscribed to this list (I'm working on that...). Thanks. ------ I am interested in studying Current TV, and could use some guidance as I begin reviewing the relevant literature. Current TV (launched by Al Gore and partners about a year ago) is both a web site (Currenttv.org) and a digital cable channel that provides "news" content targeting 18-34-year-olds. While Current TV has a staff of tv producers and reporters who generate short films (what they call "pods"), they also invite ordinary people to make and upload films onto the web site. From there, both the producers and users select particular films to then be shown on tv. Current TV thus represents convergence both between television and the web, and between producer- and user-generated content. It seems to be an attempt to harness the chaos of the web - a mix of hierarchical, top-down programming and horizontal, citizen media (they mark the films produced by users as "viewer-created content" or VC2.) The web site also has links to community forums, blogs, etc. What I am most interested in, though, is the turn toward citizen journalism, and in particular, bringing what primarily has been a web phenomenon to television (which of course is almost entirely the province of corporate media). If anyone has suggestions about mandatory reading (either seminal or contemporary) I would greatly appreciate it! Please direct any responses directly to me at <gdbaym(a)uncg.edu>. Thanks so much, Geoffrey Baym

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