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From: "Mark E. Tisdale" <highflyr@earthlink.net>
To: <socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: Virtual Identities and Communities ...refs ???
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 18:52:31 -0500
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Hi,

I'm a first year grad student in sociology at Auburn University, and I JUST
subscribed to this list.  I'm also considering doing my thesis on something
to do with cyberspace, virtual communities, whatever.  I had been working
on a proposal for a class this quarter dealing with usenet, but I've
decided to deep-six the idea.  I still may try to find another topic in
this area, however, as human interaction over the internet fascinates me. 
We had to do a project in our methods class as undergraduates.  I graduated
from Georgia Southwestern College - now Georgia Southwestern State
University.  Anyway, our school had JUST gotten hooked up to the internet,
and I was doing the late-nighters on-line with lots of others.  I ended up
doing my project as a participant observation of chatting online.  Anyway,
I've collected some URL's that might be of interest to you.  Here they are
in no particular order:

http://www.well.com/user/deucer/thesis.html

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/csoc/

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/anthro/scholarly/lost-in-cyberspace.html

http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/

http://www.vianet.net.au/~timn/thesis/index.html

http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/WebSoc.html

Good luck on finding a topic.  I'm still hunting myself.

Later,

Mark

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> From: Ocean <BJR49@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
> To: Sociology Graduate Students -- International
<socgrad@csf.colorado.edu>
> Subject: Virtual Identities and Communities ...refs ???
> Date: Friday, May 09, 1997 11:50 PM
> 
> Hi.
> 
> If you've been reading your mail recently then you would have seen my 
> bio and how I'm doing a project on understanding virtual communities and 
> how we create virtual identities, within these communities, through 
> narratives.
> 
> There is so much new literature in this field.  I would really 
> appriciate it if anyone could tell me of any interesting articles etc.
> Or alternativley, if you knew of different discussions, veiwpoints, 
> arguments etc.
> 
> My research is still in the developmental stages and I am trying to 
> narrow my topic down.  SO any info would be really cool at this stage of 
> the game!
> 
> Thanks.
> Belinda