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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was confused too, as I had assumed that online
communities using videoconferencing to enhance communication would have been of
interest.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I guess it's easy to assume others have the same
focus as you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd be interested to get more of an idea what
you're looking into, Yvonne.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ben</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=brenda.danet@yale.edu href="mailto:brenda.danet@yale.edu">Brenda
Danet</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=air-l@aoir.org
href="mailto:air-l@aoir.org">air-l@aoir.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 28, 2002 6:50
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Air-l] Re: Yvonne Waern's query
about visual aspects of WWW/chat</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=3>Yvonne (and others):<BR><BR>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 <A
href="mailto:_Cyberpl@y">_Cyberpl@y</A>: 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. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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<BR><A
href="http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/cyberpl@y/"
eudora="autourl">http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msdanet/cyberpl@y/</A> (best
viewed in Internet Explorer). There is also a text-only pdf version of the
chapter available for downloading.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Regards, Brenda<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>