[Air-l] Re: Yvonne Waern's query about visual aspects of WWW/chat

[Brenda Danet]

Yvonne (and others):

It's not clear from your posting whether you really mean only the Web 
itself, or chat  that is directly accessed from the Web, or chat most 
generally. Maybe my work on visual communication on IRC is relevant; in my 
book _Cyberpl at y: Communicating Online_ (Berg, Oxford, 2001) I devoted a 
chapter to 2 channels that communicate on IRC mainly via the display of 
images that are an elaboration of ASCII art. Players add the nick of a 
recipient to be greeted before displaying a file.

One of the channels, "colors", has meanwhile closed down, but the other, 
called "rainbow," continues to flourish, and I am writing a whole new book 
about them now. There are other IRC channels devoted to this phenomenon too.

The entire chapter about this form of art as communication, including all 
color and black and white illustrations, is the sample chapter on the 
book's Website, and can be accessed at
http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/cyberpl@y/ (best viewed in Internet 
Explorer). There is also a text-only pdf version of the chapter available 
for downloading.

This phenomenon is very different from visual enhancement of what is 
basically typed textual chat, as in comics-like environments, The Palace, 
or 3D graphical interfaces for typed chat.

Regards, Brenda
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