RE: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #719 - 8 msgs
Hi In my research into how families use the internet, I have one user who sends/receives emails frequently throughout the day but doesn't know how to search on the web. She said she'd never had any reason to! (There is earlier feminist research on women feeling the web isn't for them of course, can't remember refs off the top of my head but maybe Dale Spender, Nattering on the Net was one of them.) I visited this woman two years later and found she'd ceased internet use altogether. I guess it doesn't work for everyone. Sue 2. Internet information sources (Marj Kibby)
Marj.Kibby@newcastle.edu.au 05/14/2003 6:34:05 PM >>> As a member of many academic and hobby mailing lists I'm regularly struck by requests to the list for information that could have been uncovered by a web search.
Today for example there was an 'urgent' request on a list for info on Terrence Malick's use of Walt Whitman, from a Cultural Studies professor. A web search on the two names brought up a number of good articles. Anyone know whether this is widespread, or have any explanation why Internet users would email others for information rather than search the web? Cheers, Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby@newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604 _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l --__--__--
Dear AIR-ers - Ok, jumping in here a bit, BUT, there's a primary need to look at how the family system is impacted by the network effect . . . this simple principle will filter out, I suspect users who stay on the 'net vs. those who don't. Often there would be no reason to stay online if 'significant' others were not online, the old MCI 'Family & Friends' idea - few drop off's or a few add on's for online interaction might determine the staying power of the network in place. 8 seems a bit low, take the possible number of people that would then be online each day/ seven days a week, that's slightly less than one interaction online per day or less than 10 per week. QUESTION: I don't know, that seems a critical point - has anyone looked into the optimal amount of emails/day for users to stay linked into a viable network? My guess is 10-15 messages per day per network is about what I seem to be able to handle - and still feel vitally attached but not overwhelmed . . . Although more active networks (staff emails, AIR) allow me to not feel neglected and therefore tolerate low activity networks (such as the student Forestry list here at SCU, 0-1 posts per week). Denise ===== "Stupidity is not just a lack of content; it's also a process" Denise N. Rall, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & PhD student, School of Education, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/research/deniserall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
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