>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:38:00 +0100
>Subject: Re(2): Re(3): Personal mails, practice and identity in XMCA
>To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
>Cc: wbarowy who-is-at mail.lesley.edu, eva.ekeblad@ped.gu.se
>From: mowen who-is-at rem.bangor.ac.uk (Martin Owen)
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Status: RO
>
>I hve been reading Bill and Eva's papers with much interest. As my main
>work is in engineering interesting ways to teach and learn with electronic
>media, I am interested in tools that can support conversations.
>
>There are some interesting projects that are trying to use graphical
>rep[resentations of the social structure of online conversation to assist
>the development of conversation (eg the presence of new arrivals). Some of
>the interesting stuff is from the socialble computing group at MIT. It is
>chat but not CHAT based!
>
>http://www.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/circles/new/index.html
>
>and there is also a system that has a visual interface to a multilogue
>http://www.media.mit.edu/~kkarahal/loom/
>
>
>Also on the in terms of "chat" as opposed to "lists" I attended an
>interesting conference session by Susan Herring :
>http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue4/herring.html
>
>I have not read: Herring, S 1996 (ed.). Computer-Mediated Communication:
>Linguistic, Social, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Amsterdam: John
>Benjamins.
>
>Can anyone recommend it?
>
>Martin
>