JCMC is a joint project of the Annenberg School for Communication
at the University of Southern California and the Information Systems Division
of School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Editors are Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli.
The Contact Consortium was born out of CONTACT: Cultures
of the Imagination, a fifteen year old organization which has engaged
anthropologists, space scientists, fiction writers and others in pioneering
exercises simulating human contact with other intelligences. The Contact
Consortium was formed to become a focus for the theme of human culture
and contact in digital space.
An online book by Howard Rheingold. The table of contents
includes:
Chapter One: The Heart of the WELL
Chapter Two: Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture
Built a New Kind of Place
Chapter Three: Visionaries and Convergences: The Accidental History
of the Net
Chapter Four: Grassroots Groupminds
Chapter Five: Multi-user Dungeons and Alternate Identities
Chapter Six: Real-time Tribes
Chapter Seven: Japan and the Net
Chapter Eight: Telematique and Messageries Rose: A Tale of Two Virtual
Communities
Chapter Nine: Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists
Chapter Ten: Disinformocracy
This site contains an interesting collection of articles
about cyberspace communities and culture, especially concerning the visual/spatial
habitats. "Here at Electric Communities, we are examining the types of
commerce that can currently be conducted on the Internet, identifying
the technical and social barriers to achieving a fully integrated and
accessible system for conducting commerce in the context of human society,
and creating a set of elements that will enable this new medium to reach
its full potential."
A large collection of tutorials, manuals, FAQs and research
papers on the MOOs and MUDs. The articles address such topics as gender-swapping,
gender differences, group and community dynamics, and identity management.
Alan Sondheim's collection of essays about cyberspace.
"INTERNET TEXT is a meditation on the philosophy, psychology, political
economy, and psychoanalytics of Internet (computer) communication. It
describes the phenomenology of the "electronic subject," the user who
is plugged into the computer as a correspondent or researcher.... The
Internet Text consists of hundreds of sections written over a period of
two years, a continuous meditation on cyberspace, emphasizing issues of
interiority, subjectivity, body, and language."
Storm King, an active researcher on the internet, has
an excellent collection of articles about the psychology of cyberspace,
cyberspace relationships, and virtual support groups and psychotherapy.
This mailing list discusses research and theory on the
psychology of the Internet. The topics that are appropriate to this list
are broadly defined, but can include such things as: how to conduct psychological
research via the Internet; theory behind virtual support groups; on-line
psychotherapy; "Internet Addiction Disorder"; and the psychology of various
on-line phenomenon, such as flame wars, relationships, etc. All who are
interested in participating in this type of discussion are encouraged
to subscribe. It is polite to send an introductory message to the list
introducing yourself, a little bit about your background, and what you
might hope to gain from participation on the list. The list's owner is
John Grohol: johngr@cmhcsys.com
Send email to: LISTPROC@CMHC.COM
In the body of the message type:
SUBSCRIBE RESEARCH yourfirstname yourlastname
This is a list dedicated to an examination of online group
dynamics: the purpose will be to examine the process itself of writing
through listservers -- perceptions of the other participants, the dynamics
of flame wars, power and persuasion, what is effective communication and
why....
This will ideally be done in an atmosphere of mutual support
and trust but it -- emphatically -- will not be group psychotherapy. The
purpose of the list will be the search for dynamic principles of online
mailing lists in general.
The operation of the list will be as open and non-directive
as possible, based on the Tavistock model of group dynamics projects where
rules and explicit expectations are initially kept in abeyance so that
they may emerge, be examined and formulated, spontaneously.
One important advantage of email for this kind of project
is that every piece of data (piece of email) can be looked at and compiled
-- statistically perhaps -- and participants are encouraged to develop
testable hypotheses about online group dynamics.
All messages regarding your NetDynam subscription should
go to: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
To subscribe to NetDynam send
subscribe netdynam (your-first-name, your-last-name)
to
listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
It is possible to subscribe to the list in index (table
of contents) and digest (one mailing with all messages for the day). This
can be accomplished by sending mail to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu with
the message: SET NETDYNAM INDEX or SET NETDYNAM DIGEST
Archives of NetDynam mail items are kept in weekly files.
You may obtain a list of files in the archives by sending either of the
commands: INDEX NETDYNAM or GET NETDYNAM FILELIST to the listserver.
Archived messages are accessible only by current subscribers,
but subscription to NetDynam is public (unrestricted).
More information on listserver operation and commands can
be obtained with the message: GET LISTSERV REFCARD
If you have any problem or would like more information
about the NetDynam list, please contact: Storm A. King (storm@best.com)
AN ELECTRONIC FORUM FOR THE DISCUSSION OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL
AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SUBJECTIVITY IN CYBERSPACE
We are all dwelling in cyberspace, coursing through the
wires, becoming cyborg and becoming human. We are subjects of a realm
which is totally charted, and completely unknown. CYBER-MIND is devoted
to an examination of the new subjectivities that have emerged and might
yet emerge in this arena. We are interested in particular in the philosophical,
psychological/psychoanalytic and social issues engendered, particularly
as they concern the user and the social.
Some issues that might be relevant: the psychology of intimacy,
the role of gender, the phenomenology of the terminal screen, neurosis
and paranoia on the Net, the relationship of lag to community and communi-
cation, sex/gender/sexual orientation theory and electronic subjectivity,
the role of the symbolic or imaginary in computer communication, the implications
of symbolic extensions of the human ("external memory", and so forth),
fantasy and the hallucinatory aspects of email/USENET groups/MUDs, and
the psychoanalysis of lurking.
This will be an "open list" - posts on all aspects of the
above issues and more will be welcomed. It will be open to general discussion,
group readings of published works, and the sharing and critique of participants'
works -in-progress. We would stress, however, that our intent is to explore
these issues in the broadest sense. Discussions focused on IRC, MUD's/MOO's,
Virtual Reality, etc. are already readily available on the Internet. While
it is perfectly acceptable to discuss these issues when relevant, we do
wish to discourage threads that are too narrowly limited to any particular
medium or "sub-realm" of cyberspace. Similarly, while critical examination
of cyberpunk literature can yield important insights, and we will welcome
discussion of work in that genre, "fan"-type discussion of cyberpunk,
of the type available on alt.cyberpunk, etc., is not appropriate on this
list.
One concern we hope to address is the way in which much
theoretical work on cyberspace to date reflects an exclusive, hegemonic
bias, thus foreclosing some of the most interesting and radical of possibilities
for the development of Net culture. We plan to challenge ourselves and
the list members to integrate issues of race, sex, class and multiculturalism
in our efforts to think cyberspace together.
We believe this list will be an important forum for opening
up new perspectives on cyberspace and cyberculture, and are anxious and
excited to begin a dialogue with all interested parties on the types of
issues we have described here. Our list is open to all interested parties,
be they academics, Net "technicians," or ordinary citizens of cyberspace
who wish to join us in thinking and discussing the present and future
of this fascinating, exciting, and sometimes frustrating realm - and,
ultimately, of ourselves.
To subscribe, send the message:
subscribe cybermind
to
majordomo@world.std.com.
You should recieve a message confirming your subscription.
If you have any difficulties, or more general questions, contact the list-owners:
mcurrent@picard.infonet.net - or - sondheim@panix.com
This mailing list is a forum for the discussion of the
psychological and psychotherapeutic services delivered via all aspects
of the Internet. This list is conceived of as a forum for psychologists
and mental health workers interested in discussing the interactions, problems,
and disorders arising out of the use of the Internet; as well as the treatments
developing to treat existing and developing disorders via the Internet.
NetPsy is an open, unmoderated list, but it is NOT a support
group and it is NOT a forum for anyone seeking psychological services
over the Internet. The list owners do NOT advocate using the Internet
to provide therapy, but only wish to provide a forum to discuss the ways
that the Internet is being (and can be) used to create or maintain personal
and/or professional and therapeutic relationships.
Examples of relevant topics include (but are not limited
to) the following; * Ethical and legal considerations.
* Online demographics.
* Influences of the *online community* in the lives of users.
* The development of online love affairs and relationships.
* New additions to mental-health terminology and symbols related to affective
expressions; new behavioral patterns online.
* Interpersonal effects of current and evolving forms of online technology.
* Innovative uses of online technology to treat disorders as classified
in DSM-IV.
* Reviews of resource sites, newsletters, and mail groups related to mental
health online; and short editorials or comments on various topics of elevance
to psychology online.
* Effects of not having visual or auditory feedback in interpersonal communications
? (both group and individual)
* Effect of defense mechanisms upon Internet communications.
* Factors that limit the use of the Internet to provide therapy.
* Unique factors that make the Internet useful for providing therapy.
* The value of referring clients to on-line self-help groups.
* Establishing moderated lists to provide group therapy.
* Pro-bono efforts as opposed to charging for services.
* Using the Internet to assist Disaster Mental Health efforts.
To subscribe to this list send
subscribe NetPsy (your first name, your last name) to listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
owner & co-moderator: Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. drm@cts.com
Self-Help & Psychology Magazine CST Professional
Center
co-moderator: Storm A. King (storm@best.com), Student,
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology http://www.best.com/~storm/
This is John December's selected listing of items related
to Computer-Mediated Communication, the Internet, and network information
infrastructure and use.
- This Web site is dedicated to serving the needs of researchers,
students, teachers, and practitioners interested in the study of human
communication via computers. This field of study is called Computer-Mediated
Communication (CMC). People interested in CMC study a range of phenomena--from
the dynamics of group communication in Usenet news articles to how people
use hypertext to shape meaning. The CMC Studies Center helps people share
information, make contacts, collaborate, and learn about developments
and events.
- Robin Hamman's site. Cybersoc is an online resource
for social scientists interested in the study of the internet, cyberspace,
computer mediated communication, and online communities.
back to the Psychology of Cyberspace home page
www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/psycyber.html
