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Re: Yvonne Waern's query about visual aspects of WWW/chat
by Brenda Danet 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

Yvonne (and others): It's not clear from your posting whether you really mean only the Web itself, or chat that is directly accessed from the Web, or chat most generally. Maybe my work on visual communication on IRC is relevant; in my book _Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online_ (Berg, Oxford, 2001) I devoted a chapter to 2 channels that communicate on IRC mainly via the display of images that are an elaboration of ASCII art. Players add the nick of a recipient to be greeted before displaying a file. One of the channels, "colors", has meanwhile closed down, but the other, called "rainbow," continues to flourish, and I am writing a whole new book about them now. There are other IRC channels devoted to this phenomenon too. The entire chapter about this form of art as communication, including all color and black and white illustrations, is the sample chapter on the book's Website, and can be accessed at http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/cyberpl@y/ (best viewed in Internet Explorer). There is also a text-only pdf version of the chapter available for downloading. This phenomenon is very different from visual enhancement of what is basically typed textual chat, as in comics-like environments, The Palace, or 3D graphical interfaces for typed chat. Regards, Brenda

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My Promotion : Scam letter from Nigeria
by azhar 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

Dear Ken Friedman, To my surprise. I to did received the same scam letter with the same content as per your attachment on 6/4/2002 via my e-mail. I just want to know more from you, actually what happens to the writer / sender of that scam letter ? At least it would help me, of an idea, what to do next. Your reply to this is much appreciated. Thank you. Regards, AZHAR (Malaysia)

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(no subject)
by davidsosebee 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

Please unsubscribe my email from your list. thank you

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IDEAS fest
by Thom Kevin Gillespie 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

last weekend we had the first ever IDEAS fest, Interactive Digital Environments, Arts and Storytelling, thru the MIME program at IU. We had 85 submissions from across Indiana in 7 categories. Next year IDEAS expands to a midwest regional interactive arts festival. You can see & hear the winners and honorable mentions at www.mime.indiana.edu/ideas/showtime --Thom \\\\//// tHoM gIllEsPiE, maitre d'Igital, CafeTechnos(a)ait.net /ww ww\ Indiana University, Telecommunications Dept 6 (*][*) ? 1229 E 7th St Radio & TV Bldg \ .7 / Bloomington, IN 47405-5501 USA ( --') thom(a)indiana.edu 812-855-3254 (v) WWWW The MIME Program in newMedia Design / WW \ www.mime.indiana.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since permanent change is here to stay, to accomplish anything bold and beautiful in the firmament of time we must learn to change directions and fall gracefully -- Sam Keen in Learning To Fly

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Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #368 - 4 msgs
by Thom Kevin Gillespie 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 air-l-request(a)aoir.org wrote: > From: Yvonne Waern <waern(a)dsv.su.se> > Subject: Re: [Air-l] Visual communication on the web? > > I was probably not enough specific - sorry! What I meant is: how can > people express themselves on the web, visually? NOT web-page design, > nor html - code! I have heard about chats with visual components - > do you know any research on such? Or anything similar? We have a project in the MIME program to allow folks to do just that www.bubblebubblecomics.com This project is just beginning but there are all sorts of plans for the equivalent of visual chat/comic design. last year we had a project described as 'open source animation' which would also give users/readers/interactors the opportunity to visually design even if they couldn't visually design www.zonecomics.com Might also examine the way the tool 'painter' is constructed with playback capabilities. I think you can 'study' this concept but you will always be 'behind' the concept. the only way to actually study this concept effectively is to learn to design yourself or associate with the folks who are building the future, the designers. --Thom \\\\//// tHoM gIllEsPiE, maitre d'Igital, CafeTechnos(a)ait.net /ww ww\ Indiana University, Telecommunications Dept 6 (*][*) ? 1229 E 7th St Radio & TV Bldg \ .7 / Bloomington, IN 47405-5501 USA ( --') thom(a)indiana.edu 812-855-3254 (v) WWWW The MIME Program in newMedia Design / WW \ www.mime.indiana.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Since permanent change is here to stay, to accomplish anything bold and beautiful in the firmament of time we must learn to change directions and fall gracefully -- Sam Keen in Learning To Fly

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question on cellular phones
by Mete Yildiz 26 Apr '02

26 Apr '02

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there are any studies out there about the use of cellular phones for increasing the Internet access of citizens, bridging the digital gap, etc. Thanks in advance, Mete Yildiz Ph.D. student in Public Affairs Indiana University, Bloomington

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Friendship/Kinship Articles
by denisecarter＠denisecarter.net 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Does anyone know of any articles on friendship particularly (or kinship also). I am 'doing ethnography' in an online community (from a Social Anthropological viewpoint) and my data is driving me to look at friendship as perhaps a more flexible bond than kinship. In some cases friendship seems to be the precursor to the adoption of familial roles' as in ..."she's my cybermom". Strong friendship ties appear to be a major part of the social relations that are being negotiated in this particular online community. I didn't want to lose myself in trawling through all the kinship literature. thanks a lot Denise

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CGDC early registration closes
by Frans Mäyrä 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

** CGDC early registration closes ** This is a reminder that the early registration (with special discount prices) to the Computer Games and Digital Cultures conference is closing in Tuesday, the 30th of April. See: http://www.gamesconference.org/registration.html CGDC conference is organised by the Hypermedia Laboratory of University of Tampere, Finland, in co-operation with the leading Nordic universities and industry partners. The three-day event serves both academic research community and developers interested in exploring various games design issues. It also includes a national event aimed at the general audience. For the lecture and research paper programme, see http://www.gamesconference.org/programme.html The design-oriented workshop programme is available in http://www.gamesconference.org/pf_workshop.html The keynote presentations are given by Warren Spector (Ion Storm, USA, designer of Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Thief and Deus Ex), games critic, expert and designer Greg Costikyan (Unplugged Games, USA) and Eric Zimmerman (gamelab, USA). Welcome to Tampere in June 6-8, 2002! - Frans Mäyrä, professor, programme committee (chair)

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aoir.org, appropriation/spam
by jeremy hunsinger 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Hi, recently, I've been noticing that i've been getting spam from AoIR.org, and I've had some reports of a virus distributed here. However, after investigation, I can confirm that none of these events have actually been disseminated from our servers. Instead, they have been, appropriated and distributed as originating from aoir.org, even though they have not. This, of course, is quite easy to do with open relays(aoir.org is not open) and should be summarily ignored by you. But if you do receive something that you think is of dubious origin but claiming to be aoir.org, please feel free to send it to postmaster(substitute(a))aoir.org and I will investigate it, remember to send full headers if possible. Thanks, -- jeremy hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy cddc/political science http://www.cddc.vt.edu 526 major williams hall 0130 http://www.dromocracy.com virginia tech -under construction blacksburg, va 24061 540-231-7614 this email was sent from my office

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Re: Friendship
by Barry Wellman 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

Denise Carter asked about studies of friendship on and off line, I've been writing about friendship for 35 years. Perhaps the best recent summaries are in the intro chapter to my Networks in the Global Village book (Westview Press) "The Network Community", and my article in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2001, Physical Place and Cyber Place. Both are review pieces packed with references. Almost final versions of each are on my website. The American Behavioral Scientist, Nov 2001, has 10 articles about the Internet in Everyday Life, and another 10 articles are added to these in Wellman & Haythornthwaite, eds, The Internet in Everyday Life (Blackwell, fall 2002). Barry ___________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 ___________________________________________________________________

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