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OC = Online Communities (Preece)
CMC = Computer-Mediated Communication (Herring)
CiC = Communities in Cyberspace (Smith & Kollock)

II. Tuesday January 11

Tools and Techniques for Researching On-line Behavior

Read:

• Chap. 10 OC
• Herring, S. C. (2004). Computer-mediated discourse analysis: An approach to researching online behavior. Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning, S. A. Barab, R. Kling, and J. H. Gray (Eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Pennebaker, J. W., M. E. Francis, et al. (2001). Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count: LIWC 2001. Mahwah, NJ, Erlbaum Publishers.
• Pennebaker, J.W. (2002) What our words can say about us: Toward a broader language psychology. Psychological Science Agenda, 15 , 8-9. (one page long)
• Northwestern IRB information
• Suler, John (1999)One of Us: Participant Observation Research at the Palace. in The Psychology of Cyberspace.

III. Tuesday January 18

What (or where) is online

• Chaps. 1 & 2, OC
• Chapter 1 (Introduction) in CiC
• Wellman, B. and M. Gulia (1999).Net Surfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities as Communities.CiC

IV. Tuesday January 25
Identity and Deception

• Turkle, S. (1995) "Aspects of the Self" in Turkle, S. . Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York, Simon & Schuster.
• Donath, J. (1997). Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community." CiC
• Bruckman, A. (1996). "Finding One's Own Space in Cyberspace." MIT Technology Review 3 (January).

Spend time in an adventure or role-playing MUD. For a list, see MudConnect. For information see their information page

V. Tuesday February 1

Designing Online Communities

(Guest Speaker)

• Suler, J. (1998). Making virtual communities work. In The Psychology of Cyberspace, January 1996, revised October 1998 (v1.0)
• Kim, A.J. (2000) Community Building on the Web. New York: Peach Pit Press.
• Morningstar, C and Farmer, F.R. (1990). Lessons in Lucasfilm Habitat in Michael Benedikt (ed.)Cyberspace:First Steps, MIT press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Karahalios, Karrie and Donath, Judith (2004) "Telemurals: Linking Remote Spaces with Social Catalysts" Proceedings of ACM Computer-Human Interaction, Vienna, Austria.

Spend time in Lambda MOO

telnet://lambda.moo.mud.org:8888

for help see info page, the map and Amy Bruckman's instructions

• O'Brien, J.(1990).Writing in the Body: Gender (re) production in Online Interaction CiC
• Herring, Susan (1996) Two variants of an electronic message schema CMC
• Huffaker, D. and S. Calvert (2005). Gender Differences in Identity and Language Use Among Teenage Bloggers. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
• Stone, R. (1991) Will the Real Body Please Stand Up. Cyberspace: First Steps, ed. Michael Benedikt (Cambridge: MIT Press): 81-118

1 page proposal for final paper due

VII. Tuesday February 15

Children Online

• Katz, Jon (1997) "The Rights of Children" in Virtuous Reality; How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits, and Blockheads Like William Bennett . Random House, New York, NY.
• Cassell, J. and D. Tversky (2005). "The Language of Online Intercultural Community Formation." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 10(1).
• Bruckman, Amy (1998) "Community Support for Constructionalist Learning" in CSCL 7:47-86.
• optional: Tapscott, Don (1999) "The N-Gen Mind" in Growing up Digital . McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.

Spend time in a young person's community online. Some (very different) examples: MaMaMedia, TakingITGlobal.

VIII. Tuesday February 22

Your online communities

Presentation of your implementations

Online Community Implementation due

IX. Tuesday March 1

The Body in Cyberspace

• Suler, J. (1996).The psychology of avatars and graphical space in multimedia chat communities: or how I learned to stop worrying and love my Palace props".in Chat Community Michael Beiswenger (ed.), pp. 305-344.
• Cassell, J. and H. Vilhjalmsson (1999). "Autonomy vs. Direct Control: Communicative Behavior in Avatars." Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2: 45-64.

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