[Air-L] Internet usage

Pam Brewer brewerpe at appstate.edu
Thu Sep 13 05:37:27 PDT 2007


Alecea--

I will be glad to participate.

P

Pamela Estes Brewer
Lecturer
Department of English
Appalachian State University
PhD Candidate, Texas Tech University
phone 828-262-2351
email  brewerpe at appstate.edu



Alecea Standlee wrote:
> Hey all,
> I am doing some preliminary research on the impact of the Internet on identity formation. I am particularly interested in how heavy users i.e. people who spend a  lot of time online for work purposes (like many of us on this listserv!) think the internet has impacted their social networks and personal identity. I will be sending out an informal open ended survey to get some preliminary observations. If anyone would be interested in contributing please let me know and I will forward the survey to you in the next week or so. 
>
> Thanks,
> Alecea Standlee
> Syracuse University
>
>
>
> Scott MacLeod <helianth at gmail.com> wrote: Greetings,
>
> I'm teaching a "Society and Information Technology
> in Second Life" course again this fall in the amphitheater
> on Berkman island on Wednesday evenings from 7:00 - 9 ET, 1600-1800 SLT :
> http://socinfotech.pbwiki.edu. This course draws on long time Berkeley
> Professor Manuel Castells' examination of the Network Society, and
> offers ways to analyze significant aspects of the information
> technology revolution.
>
> In this evening's class, we'll finish examining what gave rise to the
> information technology revolution - microelectronics, computers, and
> telecommunications - and then begin to look at the history of the
> Internet.
>
> Watch the videos linked to the wiki above, and let me know if you
> would like me to send you some of the readings for this week and next,
> mentioned below.
>
> Second Life shapes the possibility for rich discussion - and
> at-large participation is welcome - so come and join this
> conversation, tonight and subsequently.
>
> See you in-world,
> Scott
>
>
>
> Manuel Castells, "The Rise of the Network Society," 2nd edition,
> Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, Chapter 1: "The Information Technology
> Revolution," pp. 28- 76.
>
> Janet Abbate,  "Inventing the Internet," Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999,
> pages 1-6, 44-81, and 181-220.
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