OnlineSocialNetworks: Launch of New Majordomo List
***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS*** Colleagues/ Launch of OnlineSocialNetworks Majordomo List During the past several years, online social networking sites have become quite pervasive within a variety of personal and professional communities. As noted by Wikipedia, *a social network service focuses on the building * of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities * . Most social network services * provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups, * [etc.]* [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service ] [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites ] The list is intended to serve as a forum in which individuals of any and all interests can discuss Any and All issues relating to Online Social Networks, most notably their current and potential use by libraries/librarians and/or their current/potential use within institutions of higher learning. Significant discussion items will be highlighted in my _Friends_ blog [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/ ] TO SUBSCRIBE to the OnlineSocialNetworks list send the following subscribe onlinesocialnetworks YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO majordomo@iastate.edu Once subscribed, subscribers can post messages by sending to onlinesocialnetworks@iastate.edu OnlineSocialNetworks is currently an UnModerated List. Thanks for Your Interest! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows ... [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]
The latest edition of the Transforming Cultures ejournal is now live and available at: http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/TfC/issue/view/40/ The issue is called the Cybermind Online Gender Project and collects a group of papers which study the use of gender on an internet mailing list. Comments, criticisms, elaborations etc most welcome, there is a section of this journal issue reserved for such feedback. jon Contents: Introduction: Gender in Online Worlds: An Introduction to, and Summary of, Cybermind Research Jonathan Paul Marshall Articles 'Dragging her dirt all over the net': Presence, Intimacy, Materiality V1.0 Esther Milne Weavers & Warriors? Gender and Online Identity in 1997 and 2007 V1.0 Deirdre Ruane The Mobilisation of Race and Gender on an Internet Mailing List V1.0 Jonathan Paul Marshall The dynamics of gender perception and status in email-mediated group interaction V1.0 Alexanne Don Reflections Meetspace Elizabeth Barrette Letters from 'Karen Crawford' V1.0, 25 Jan 2001++ Karen Crawford Spam Agenda, V1.0 B. Dorris Reflections on Cybermind, V1.0 Salwa Ghaly Being a Girl Gamer - A Correspondence with Caitlin Martin V1.0 Caitlin Martin Gender and You Alan Sondheim
From the Internet Text: Gender, Embodiment and Ontology Alan Sondheim
Cybermind Discusses Gender V1.0 Jonathan Paul Marshall Transforming Cultures eJournal: ISSN 1833-8542 -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
cool! (hi Jon) nice to see stuff from the good old days:) r On Jan 20, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Jonathan Marshall wrote:
The latest edition of the Transforming Cultures ejournal is now live and available at:
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/TfC/issue/view/40/
The issue is called the Cybermind Online Gender Project and collects a group of papers which study the use of gender on an internet mailing list.
Comments, criticisms, elaborations etc most welcome, there is a section of this journal issue reserved for such feedback.
jon
Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator School of Communication Studies 302 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org/blog
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