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From: Ocean <BJR49@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Virtual Identities and Communities ...refs ???
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Mark,

Thanks for the useful URLs.  Good luck with deciding your research 
topic.  It sure is hard when it's such an expansive and exciting area.  
Keep in touch.  Perhaps we could bounce some ideas off each other!!!  It 
helps sometimes when figureing out different ideas.

Belinda.


Mark E. Tisdale wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> ----------
> > 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