Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:52:36 -0500 From: Revised List Processor (1.7e) Subject: File: "EJRNL CONTENTS" To: pirmann@cs.rutgers.edu _______ _______ __ / _____/ /__ __/ / / / /__ / / ____ __ __ __ ___ __ __ ____ / / / ___/ __ / / / __ \ / / / / / //__/ / //_ \ / __ \ / / / /____ / /_/ / / /_/ / / /_/ / / / / / / / / /_/ / / / \_____/ \____/ \____/ \____/ /_/ /_/ /_/ \__/_/ /_/ An Electronic Journal concerned with the implications of electronic networks and texts. University at Albany, State University of New York EJOURNAL@ALBANY.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents of _EJournal_ back issues: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To get a back issue, ask to "get" the EJRNL that you want. To get Volume 1, Number 1 (March 1991), for instance : e-mail address : LISTSERV@ALBANY.bitnet text of message: GET EJRNL V1N1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.CONTENTS Contents: This file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.INFO Contents: Information about _EJournal_, including how to obtain back-issues, how to subscribe, how to submit an article, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V1N1 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 1 Number 1 March 1991 - 421 lines. Principal essay: "Electronic Journals of Proposed Research" by Robert K. Lindsay Mental Health Research Institute University of Michigan 226 lines. Abstract: Scientists and other scholars should use the networks to share ideas before preparing elaborate grant proposals. Publication in this preliminary form would attract cooperative peer review, would "register" the concepts involved, would attract qualified collaboration, and would lead to a smaller number of futile applications for scarce funds. Notes, Bibliography (TedJ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V1N2 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 1 Number 2 May 1991 - 506 lines. Principal essay: "Re/View of _Writing Space_" by Joe Amato Department of English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 277 lines. Abstract: An essay re/view of Jay David Bolter's book, _Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing_. Joe praises the book, and asks some questions about the "evangelistic euphoria" with which Bolter greets the "revolutionary new medium." Post-modernist theorizing, ideological assumptions, and "the darker side of hypertext" are some issues raised in a positive review. (TedJ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V1N2-1 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 1 Number 2-1 October 1991 - 426 lines. Supplemental essays: "The Brent-Amato Exchange" by Doug Brent College of General Studies University of Calgary and Joe Amato Department of English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 216 lines. Abstract: An exchange between Doug Brent and Joe Amato about the re/view of Bolter's _Writing Space_, including the requested expansion of "ideas on the 'darker side' of hypertext." (TedJ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V1N3 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 1 Number 3 November 1991 - 873 lines. Principal essay: "Oral Knowledge, Typographic Knowledge, Electronic Knowledge: Speculations on the History of Ownership" by Doug Brent Faculty of General Studies University of Calgary 686 lines. Abstract: The theory of transformative technology (McLuhan, Ong, Heim et al) is applied to the problem of intellectual property versus communal knowledge. Oral cultures have no intellectual property: knowledge is communally generated and shared. Print technology created the book as artifact, knowledge as individually generated, owned, and protected. Copyright and plagiarism are inventions of the print age. With CMC and hypertext, we may be returning to an age in which personal ownership of knowledge becomes virtually impossible by the nature of the medium itself. This will require profound shifts in our attitude to knowledge and the way we use its ownership as an incentive to produce it. (DB) [ Note: Volume 1 Number 3-1, published in July 1992, is a Supplement to this issue. It is devoted to an exchange of views between Bob Hering and Doug Brent about the "power" exerted by technology and by economics. We urge readers of V1N3 to send for V1N3-1 as well. ] [ Note: Volume 1 Number 3-2, published in September 1992, is another supplement to this issue. It contains an essay by John Dilworth arguing that reputation is as important a reward as money for contributors to electronic networks. New readers will probably want to look at all three issues. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V2N1 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 2 Number 1 April 1992 - 351 lines. ** This first issue of our second year is aimed especially at new subscribers ** CONTENTS: Introduction/Editorial Summary of Network Commands **** Please note that a command has changed since this issue was published. GET INDEX EJRNL is now GET EJRNL CONTENTS; it will supply you with this file. ( this note added 7/20/1992 ) **** Contents of Volume 1 (1991) Subjects Personnel Ancient History Other History ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V2N2 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 2 Number 2 June 1992 - 760 lines Editorial 1: Should we say goodbye to "text"? Editorial 2: Writing as reward, not punishment Principal essay: "Literacy for the Next Generation: Writing without Handwriting" by David Coniam Chinese University of Hong Kong 417 lines Abstract: The chore of drawing the alphabet correctly has always been a barrier between a child's verbal imagination and words on a page. But "good penmanship" --the requirement to scribble legibly-- need no longer disrupt the flow from composer to composition. Keyboard-display technology will relegate manuscript writing to the closet crammed with useful but supplemental knowledge like multiplication tables and Latin conjugations. More and more children will associate text-making with pleasure instead of pain. (TedJ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V1N3-1 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 1 Number 3-1 July 1992 - 549 lines Editorial: Electronic Time Travel Abstract: This issue is a Supplement to issue V1N3, devoted to an exchange of views between Bob Hering and Doug Brent about the "power" exerted by technology and by economics. We urge readers of V1N3-1 to send for V1N3 as well. (TedJ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V2N3 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 2 Number 3 August, 1992 - 727 lines Editorial: Call for editors; call for essays; letters to the editor. Abstract: This issue contains five responses to David Coniam's essay about children and keyboards (and to my editorial). One of them was a request to reprint his piece in the _Journal of Computing in Childhood Education_. One, from Brazil, was a report of a "test," of sorts, of David's hypothesis. David's essay can be found in EJRNL.V2N2 . (TedJ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V1N3-2 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 1 Number 3-2 September 1992 - 449 lines Editorial Notes: List Purging; Money; Reader Survey Principal essay: CREDIT, COMPENSATION AND COPYRIGHT: OWNING KNOWLEDGE AND ELECTRONIC NETWORKS by John B. Dilworth Department of Philosophy Western Michigan University, U.S.A. Abstract: This issue is the second Supplement to issue V1N3, an intriguing contribution to the polylog about who owns electronic texts. Professor Dilworth argues that the difference between intellectual property and legal property makes copyright essentialy irrelevant, at least for electronic publications in an academic context. We urge readers of V1N3-2 to send for V1N3 and V1N3-1 as well. (TedJ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V2N4 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 2 Number 4 December 1992 - 642 lines Editorial Notes: Surveys Abstract: This issue carries a followup exchange on the subject of ownership and copyright of electronic texts, a thread that started a year ago. Issues V1N3, V1N3-1 and V1N3-2 contain the original article and followup letters on this topic. This issue also delivers two questionnaires. One is about electronic journals and libraries, and one is about you, the reader of _EJournal_. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filename: EJRNL.V2N5 Contents: _EJournal_ Volume 2 Number 5 December(2) 1992 - 984 lines Editorial Notes: Usenet Oracle Principle Essay: THE USENET ORACLE: Virtual Authors and Network Community by David Sewell English Department University of Rochester Abstract: David Sewell's essay couldn't come much much closer to _EJournal_'s announced interests, "the implications of electronic networks and texts." From a sentence near the end of his text: ". . . the computer's ability to create self-contained virtual worlds is beginning to affect what we traditionally call 'writing' or 'literature'. . . ." There's an intriguing observation about "emergent conventions"; there are plausible hints about ways the network culture may resemble pre-print communities. 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