Hi all, One of my undergraduate students (and, indeed, for another class) would like to research message boards (as a lurker - though I've apprised her of the AoIR guidelines) to determine what relationship(s), if any, may exist between amount/kinds of information under discussion and the emergence of hierarchical / power structures. I just know that there must be a thousand citations out there that she should look at - if you have any to recommend, I'd be grateful if you could forward those to me. Many thanks! And cheers, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC'06: http://www.catacconference.org Co-chair, ECAP'06: http://www.eu-cap.org Professor II, Globalization and Applied Ethics Programmes Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway http://www.anvendtetikk.ntnu.no/pres/bridgingcultures.php Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23