Mark Riley Aardvark, Masters postgraduate Student, Institute of Communication Studies.

Hi, I am interested in the differences between US Internet business models and British/European ones. For example, are there instances of US Web sites having to be radically altered to reflect the different culture in Europe. (Apart from the language obviously) Are there US business models which have worked well in the US but completely failed in Europe? Therefore are there business models which would work well in Europe but not the US? How universal is the appeal of the Internet to business then? Thanks for your thoughts, Mark. <ics9mjr@leeds.ac.uk>

Michael Abrams, Author and Software Developer.

I am interested in the development of a science of Informatics, concerned with the formulation of general theories of the ways in which information (and information technologies) can empower individuals (politically, economically, socially, culturally...) To this end, I am interested in understanding society as a cybernetic system. <msa@gate.net>

Mary Ann Allmendinger, Doctoral Student, Educational Leadership Policy Studies, Temple University.

I am currently writing my dissertation proposal which focuses on the introduction of the Internet to college campuses. In particular, I am planning to look at 5 major uiversities to determine how they proceeded in making the Internet available to their faculties and their student bodies. I am also interested in discovering the problems which they encountered in the process and how they handled them. I hope to finish my proposal by the end of the summer and to defend by May 2000. I am interested in hearing from anyone who may have some suggestions regarding my study. <maallmen@aol.com>

Mark Andrejevic, Doctoral Candidate, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder.

My interests include digital aesthetics, new media, and critical theory. My most recent work involves an attempt to draw on aspects of Adorno's aesthetic theory to outline a critique of the "aesthetic" of digital commerce. <Mark.Andrejevic@colorado.edu>

John Armitage, Principal Lecturer in Department of Politics, University of Northumbria.

My interests include: Postmodern Cutural and Political Theory; New Information and Communications Technologies; and Politics. <John.Armitage@unn.ac.uk>

Dena Attar, DPhil Student, Graduate Centre in Culture and Communications, University of Sussex.

I am researching webpages as texts, how people read webpages and learn to become readers of webpages within various social contexts. My interest is in electronic literacies as new forms of literacy, how these are being gendered, and what it means for people (particularly but not exclusively adult women) to acquire this new form of literacy at different stages of their lives. <dena.attar@btinternet.com>

Patricia Aufderheide, Associate Professor, School of Communication, American University.

I am interested in the relationship between cultural expression and social power, and in the potential of networking technologies to foster and inhibit public life. I am particularly interested in the project of the self and questions of cultural identity in a networked era. <paufder@american.edu>

Paul M.A. Baker, Research Assistant Professor and Director of Student Affairs, The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University; Adjunct Faculty, Public and International Affairs, GMU.

I am intrigued by the concept of community, and the mapping of virtual community on geographical space. While community in geographical space is frequently defined by location, or as Manual Castells calls it, a "space of places," virtual space, or cyber communities, can be thought of as a "space of flows." Here the nexus of community can be thought of as intensity of interest, with the outliers of community being individuals with "less" interest than those in core. Community in virtual space, then, rather than being held together by the friction of geography, are held together by congruence of interest, a more ephemeral link. Tying this to my field of policy, access to these communities of interest represents a new type of outreach for local governments, or the potential extension of "government" into the virtual world. Barring this effort, cyberspace analogues of government may develop, what have been called "external public organizations." <pbaker@gmu.edu>

Randy Bass, English Department and American Studies, Director, Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS), Georgetown University.

I am interested in the intersection between knowledge and media, especially as it applies to the study of American culture and history. I teach courses on text, knowledge, and pedagogy in the electronic age.<rbass@guvax.georgetown.edu>

Sally Bates, Information Manager, Unidata Program Center.

I am interested in using computing technologies to foster the sense and feel of community among scientists; other means of interactions are necessary here, but networking technologies are certainly at the foundation. I work for a small program that has built a community among meteorologists and I'm trying to document what we've done, decipher what elements are applicable in other disciplines, and incorporate into our program technologies that will promote this sense of community even further.<sally@unidata.ucar.edu>

Hillary Bays, Department of Science of Language & Linguistics, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Mediated discourse changes the dynamic of an interaction, which has been described by Goffman as an encounter which takes place during the continual co-presence of interlocutors, that is face to face. In a forthcoming PhD, I am examining the strategies of interaction in Internet Relay Chat, as a forum for discussion and exchange which is stripped of its physcial parameters while retaining many traits found in synchronic conversation. I would like to be able to exchange ideas and data, as well as keep up to date on related conferences, collaborative research projects and other academic exchanges. <hdbays@ehess.fr>

Stephen Beat, School of Education, University College Scarborough.

I am currently formulating research on how exactly "groups" are formed in cyberspace, particularly regarding how status is negotiated/achieved within online "communities." I am interested in academic work done so far on the psychology of human relations online, but with an emphasis on how these groups organize leadership and roles. In effect my work is a cyber-anthropology mapping the evolution of cyber-community "clans." I would appreciate developing correspondence with any others interested in this field, with a view to sharing ideas and possibly negotiating collaboration. <StephenB@ucscarb.ac.uk>

Jonathan Benda, Lecturer, Deptartment of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.

I am interested in how the Internet can be (and is being) used in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language, and how the use of English as an international language affects and is affected by the Internet. <benda@mail.thu.edu.tw>

Caroline M. Bennett, PhD Student, Department of Humanities & International Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 4350, Australia.

I am studying the ability of CMC to facilitate male self-disclosure and its benefits to men who may have no other recourse to assistance in times of need, or who may veer away from conventinal face to face interactions with welfare agencies for example. My topic/focus here is on relationship breakdowns and men's emotional needs. <bennett@usq.edu.au>

David W. Benoun, Department of Sociology, University of Paris IX Nanterre.

I am studying sociology in the University of Paris IX Nanterre and am writing a paper called "Genesis of cybersociety." I am very glad that the RCCS exists, and would be pleased to discuss any sort of topic concerning the Internet and sociology (despite my poor english). <david_w_benoun@yahoo.com>

Arthur Asa Berger, Professor, Department of Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts, San Francisco State University.

My interests include popular culture, media, narratives, and humor. I've been asked to give a paper on children's literature and the change from print to electonic narratives and have just started investigating interactive fiction. I'm looking for articles and books to read, websites to investigate, interactive games/stories to investigate, etc. I'd appreciate any suggestions anyone might have to offer. <aberger@sfsu.edu>

Eric Berthelette, Doctoral Candidate, Media Studies, University of Colorado.

I am interested in new communication practices and technologies within contemporary conditions of capitalism, particularly as such practices affect labor relations and the production of value. <eric.berthelette@colorado.edu>

Maria Boariu, Student, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.

My interests include comparative pedagogy, Japanese preschool systems, and young teenagers' developement. <mariaboariu@hotmail.com>

Mike Boland, Independent Scholar/Activist/Master's Candidate, Brock University.

I am very keen to "uncover" the counter-cultural elements/potentialities of the virtual spaces that are the Web. In particular, I am interested in the "heritage" aspect of counter-culture (as distinct from "sub-culture"), and what it means to have such. Also, what are the implications for society as a whole, if only a tiny minority of people have access to such a powerful tool as is provided via the Web. Lastly, my interests also rest in determining where the split between "popular" culture and "counter" culture occurs, and what this means for the communities that congregate around the norms of each. <mboland@spartan.ac.brocku.ca>

Paul Brady, Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Instructional Computing College of Agricultural, Food & Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota.

I am interested in the use of the Internet to develop flexible learning/communication environments. I have been teaching a course on Internet Skills (totally via 'Net) since 1994. I currently help faculty develop resources for local and distance learning environments using the Internet.<Paul.Brady@mail.agricola.umn.edu>

José A. Bragança de Miranda, Associate Professor, New University of Lisbon.

My interests include: cultural theory; cyberculture; political theory; philosophy of technics; aesthetics. <jbmiranda@mail.telepac.pt>

Caroline Brassard, Doctoral Student, Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi.

I'm a graduate student really interested by the sharing (of ressources, knowledges, ideas, etc.) between professor to plan their courses or make an instructional design. It's in the field of the community of practice. My thesis is titled "Sharing of virtual environment in College teaching: Factors and Principles." <carobras@videotron.ca>

Dr. Jamie Brassett, Senior Lecturer, Contextual Studies and Coordinator for BA (Honors) in Product Design Central St. Martins College of Art & Design.

Currently working on a book for IBTauris called Assemblages of Desire; & on two research projects (based at CSM) that chart the philosophical effects of the interface between bodies & cultural artefacts; these are "Wearable Electronics" & "Fashion & Modernity." All of these projects deal with the relation between subjectification, bodies & designed objects. My PhD (Philosophy, Warwick 1993) looked at the symbiotic & material relationship between subjectivites & spaces; these issues I still pursue into the digital realm. I have spoken at many national & international conferences, mostly on themes that relate themes of art, technology & philosophy. I am also a student of capoeira (brazilian martial art/dance) & dj (drum+bass, uk/2-step garage) which form some of my other leisure & research interests. <j.brassett@csm.linst.ac.uk>

Marcus Breen, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolia at Chapel Hill.

My interests include cultural studies approaches to the changing nature of entertainment, especially popular music in the new digital age. Cultural policy studies and new technologies are also major interests. <mbreen@email.unc.edu>

George Brett -- present: Director of Networking Initiatives, Southeastern Universities Research Assoc. -- past: many lives.

I work in the trenches with higher education and networked information technologies. However, my interests are more closely related to my fine arts and design background -- you might say it's the aethetics of problem solving. In other words, how can we gracefully fit technology to meet the needs, requirements, or wishes of people. As tidbits and teasers check out some of my ideas [1]. And BTW I've been spinning webs of many media for a quarter century. [2] <ghb@sura.org>

Collin Gifford Brooke, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Old Dominion University.

Broadly speaking, my work falls under the category of rhetoric and technology. I'm particularly interested in the ways that material changes in technology affect (and are affected by) language practices. I also dabble in the rhetoric of science, interface design, and virtual communities. Right now, I'm working primarily with hypertext theory and design.<cbrooke@odu.edu>

Luis Carmelo L. Buenaventura, Director for Research, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Net Curricula, Inc (NCI).

My interests include Sociology and Anthropology of cyberspace; community building and generating in cyberspace; virtual communities; online/offline relationships; computer-mediated-communication (CMC); community and communication; and CMC and education.<llb@curricula.net>

Mark Collins Bunyan, Information Systems Assistant and Masters student.

I am interested in discussing how models of society taken from virtual worlds reflect individual identity through the constructed avatar. This constitutes the self as cyborgian, and gives rise to my theory of the soci-neuro intralinguistic bubble as an ideological space... You can contribute research on my webpage. <M.C.Bunyan@mmu.ac.uk>

Heidi Campbell, PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

My research combines studies in Computer-Mediated Communication with Practical Theology. I am interested in Online Communities and how relationships and communication patters online effect offline behaviour and engagement with face-to-face communities. My work also looks at the formation of spiritual networks, how people use the Internet in their spiritual pilgrimages. <campbehe@div.ed.ac.uk>

Steve Cannaday, Graduate School Applicant.

My primary interest has to do with the influences that make us as individuals and as a society who and what we are. I'm also keenly interested in the part that technology has played historically, as well as from a predictive vantage. What kind of people will we be and what are the ways in which we will interact, particularly in the "cybertechnological age," as I refer to our present and at least our immediate future. <psugradsdc@aol.com>

Antonio A. Casilli, Doctoral Student, Editor, & Essayist, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

My focus is on the cultural history of the body: its practice and perception, and the shifts from one "body protocol" to another. My publications include two Italian books: La Fabbrica Libertina ('The libertine factory,' 1997) about the birth of the body machine in the 18th century; and Stop Mobbing ('Stop mobbing,' 2000) about the body & the globalization. I am currently working on a French project called: 'New technologies/new body: the discourse of the regeneration of the body protocol (1992-2000). Don't hesitate to contact me for information + cooperation. <antoncasilli@wanadoo.fr>

Barbara Cavanagh, Department of Performance Excellence, LifeCoach Services.

What are the conditions and assumptions that enhance creative collaboration via internet connections (bulletin boards, commercial forums, e-mail, intranets, etc.)? Also, what aspects of verbal language carry the most emotional and cognitive impact in these media, absent face-to-face cues? <cavanagh@kdi.com>

Lynn Schofield Clark, Post Doctoral Fellow, Center for Mass Media Research, University of Colorado.

I'm a critical/cultural studies ethnographer conducting research on the "at-risk" side of the Digital Divide: specifically, how young people, particularly those w/no access to computers in their homes, view and use new technologies in light of the public rhetoric celebrating the Internet as a social good. <Lynn.Clark@Colorado.EDU>

Rita Chen, Ph.D., Senior Software Engineer.

I am interested in the decentralized Internet and its future application to the community. <ritachen@altavista.com>

Dragan Cisic, Senior Lecturer, University of Rijeka.

My interest is in Electronic commerce and especialy its consequences to logistics and transport. <dragan@brod.pfri.hr>

Lin Collette, graduate student at Union Institute and administrator at Brown University.

I'm interested in a lot of things but this is what I'm working on now: a) media coverage of fringe religious/political groups (esp. far right); b) use of media, especially Internet, by far right political groups; c) ethics of conducting research online (i.e. participant observation). <Linda_Collette@brown.edu>

Iolanda B. C. Cortelazzo, Doctoral Student, Teacher College, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo.

My interests include Cyberculture and Education; Teacher Development and Higher Education; & Communication, Teaching and Learning. <icortel@ibm.net>

Alan Davies, Futures Designer, UWCN, Newport, South Wales.

I am presently studying how living spaces will change in the 21st century, in particular how personal space will be designed and managed. I am interested in living, natural systems and incorporating reality and virtual reality in a healthy symbiosis. <bladenlee@hotmail.com>

Wan-Wen Day, Institute of Telecommunications, National Chung-Cheng University.

My interests include: Virtual Community and Marketing; and Intellectual Property. <telwwd@ccunix.ccu.edu.tw>

Bernhard Debatin (German version here), Professor of Theory and Sociology of Public Communication/Media Ethics, Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Leipzig / GERMANY.

My research focuses on three aspects: (1) Internet as a new public sphere, its difference to 'older' public spheres, and the idea of a democratic potential of the internet. (2) Internet and communicative intimacy; based on my online-interviews, I'm exploring how people in chat rooms conceptualize and understand their online contacts and their communicative behaviour.(3) Internet as myth and metaphor; differentiating between structural and functional metaphors of the internet, I analyze the internet as a great virtual myth and new rhizomatic narrative at the turn of the century. <debatin@uni-leipzig.de>

Wade W. Deisman, Department of Sociology, Carleton University.

My work combines the governmentality approach to neo-liberalism advanced by Foucault to analyze the vicissitudes of current regulatory initiatives with respect to cyberspace and combines this conceptual framework with the normative commitments outlined by Habermas in his discussions of the importance of the public sphere in securing discursive forms of democracy. <wdeisman@ccs.carleton.ca>

Eduardo Duarte, Ph.D. Student, Department of Social Science, Catholic University of Sao Paulo.

I am researching virtual communities in Brazil, with a special interest in relations between real and virtual communities. I would like to know others' references and kinds of virtual groups, and others' interactions between societies and cyberworlds. <edwarte@uol.com.br>

Ann Hill Duin, Vice Provost and Professor, University of Minnesota.

A colleague and I are working to identify "readiness criteria" that need to be in place for inter-institutional "e"-partnerships. Specifically, Linda Baer (Minnesota State Colleges and Universities) and I have co-lead the development and implementation of Minnesota Virtual University. Those interested in studying virtual universities -- please contact me. Thanks! <ahduin@tc.umn.edu>

Christopher Dum, Student, Syracuse University.

I'm writing a research paper on cyberstudies as a critical theory movement. I would like to find out as much as I can about how the interest and movement toward cyberspace began. Over the past year I have been reading works by Lacan, Barry, Eagleton and others and I would like to write an essay like those on cyberculture. <superpants86@hotmail.com>

Marie Edmond, Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, Murdoch University.

My research interests include: cyberculture & adults with learning disorders, cyberculture & on line university learning, and social research of cyberculture. <m.edmond@elvis.murdoch.edu.au>

Andy Edmonds, Web Developer.

I am interested in increasing the informational productivity of web browsers, effecting a more powerful experience of cyberspace. To this end, I am developing technology using frontier and common lisp on a Mac. The plan is a follow along spider, with stored time on page matched to lexical coocurrence and link topography. The user gets a map of their travels and I get useful data I can do language generation with.<aedmonds@mindspring.com>

Dr. Graham Everett, Faculty of General Studies, Adelphi University.

My interests include technoculture's impact on the human: ways that the human is being redefined by digital technology, particularly things cyber-. <Everett@adelphi.edu>

Florentino Atilano Fajardo, Doctorate Student, Pontifical Gregorian University.

My interests include evangelization online, questions regarding how to use the Internet for the poor and how can it be pro-poor? <atilanus@email.com>

Henry Fletcher, Undergraduate Student, Department of Sociology, Queen's University.

I am particularly interested in the rising concern that the Internet is a powerful form of organization. At the moment I am doing research concerning Heaven's Gate, the California cult that performed a group suicide, specifically focusing on the claims that their webpage was used as a tool to spread their philosophy. <7hdf@qlink.queensu.ca>

Wendy Foster, Graduate Student, English Literature, University of British Columbia.

I am interested in the performance of gender and sexuality in online literatures, particular slash literatures and related late twentieth-century literatures of transgression. I am also interested in the ways in which electronic media can be utilized in the "formal" creation of textuality -- that is multiple or layered text, nodal reading etc. <wcfoster@interchange.ubc.ca>

Ted Friedman, Ph.D. Candidate, Literature Program, Duke University.

I'm writing my disseration on the cultural history of personal computers. Contesting the presumptions of technological determinists, I argue that the meanings, uses, and values associated today with the PC are the contingent results of struggles among distinct groups of enterpreneurs, executives, programmers, authors and users. These struggles have not simply been over the face of a specific technology, but fundamentally over the shape of the future. Cyberculture, I argue, is a utopian discourse, where we can explore alternative visions of the future freed from the pragmatic everyday constraints of late capitalism. The struggles over the meanings of computers, then, help determine how we all imagine the future. <tlove@acpub.duke.edu>

Radhika Gajjala, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Bowling Green State University.

My work is on Virtual Communities. I am currently working on issues related to Postcoloniality, communities online and the problems of "cyberethnography". I co-facilitate the postcolonial list and have founded three other lists. Currently, we are having a discussion related to "Postcolonialism and Virtuality" at seminar-13@jefferson.village.virginia.edu. I invite more people to participate. <rxgst6+@pitt.edu>

Jokin Garatea, Professor of International Commerce, Chamber of Commerce of Bilbao, Spain.

I am interested in the minoritarian cultures in the digital age and the promotion of network communities to develop and enhance the local education, culture, language and democracy among these communities. <garatea@gaia.es>

Erika Gentry, MFA Candidate, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester institute of Technology.

My interests include cyber identities and photographic representations. <eygentry@hotmail.com>

Edward Geraty, Adjunct Professor of Social Work, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD; Director of Prof. Development for the Maryland Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers; & Vice-President of the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work.

I am particularly interested in the application of Internet technology in the human services field and the use of the internet in the practice of clinical and community social work (cyber-social work). Please see my link to the CYBER SOCIAL WORK introduction page on my office website. <EGeratyLSW@aol.com>

Tom Gernaey, Graduate Student, Department of English, University of Ghent - Belgium.

I am currently writing a dissertation about the face-strategies (E. Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1959) gay teenagers adopt on Internet Relay Chat Channels (IRC). I hope to work out a taxonomy of strategies these teenagers adopt. I am very grateful for every single hint or tip I would receive, as my promotor does not seem to be very well into it. <Tom.Gernaey@rug.ac.be>

Kathleen Gilbert, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Health Science, Indiana University.

I am interested in cyberspace as a medium for the delivery of academic courses, across all types of boundaries and borders. I am also interested in the impact of the medium on the interaction and building of community among students. Currently, I teach one course, Grief in a Family Context, which uses the Web as the primary delivery medium and have been impressed and amazed by the level of connection that takes place among class members. <gilbertk@indiana.edu>

Tamara Goldberg, Student, Department of Women's Studies, Wesleyan University.

I am currently exploring how cybernetic technologies are transforming the limits and boundaries of the human body as we know it. More specifically, I am interested in the possibilities of cyberspace as an arena for feminist action. <tgoldberg@wesleyan.edu>

Jose Guardado, Teacher, University Del Valle de Guatemala.

I am interested in teaching mathematics and developing comprehensive material to share with students through the Web. <guardado@educomsa.com>

Tim 'Mata' Haggis, Research Student, Cultural Studies King Alfred's College of HE, Winchester, UK.

I am developing avatar theory from a bisexual perspective, focusing upon their usage for interpretation of literature. My study is based upon the works of William Gibson, although it also covers other cyberpunk works. <mata@matazone.freeserve.co.uk>

Orit Halpern, Project Director, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health.

My research interests include reproductive technologies and the intersection of information and biotechnologies as represented in the discourse of reproductive health/international "development." <ohalpern@hsph.harvard.edu>

Nadeem Hameed, Department of Information, Sustainable Development Networking Programme.

My interests include issues of online identity and communication. I am currently working on a project to see how the Internet can be used to generate and disseminate knowledge in Pakistan specifically and in developing countries in general. <nadim@edunet.sdnp.undp.org>

Robin Hamman, Graduate Student, Hypermedia Research Centre, University of Westminster.

A sociologist and web design consultant by trade, I'm currently studying the offline effects of online communication. I'm looking at both individuals and communities, many of them "grassroots activists" or marginalised communities who use the Internet in their everyday work. I have written a number of papers about life online which are published on my resource site, Cybersoc (http://www.cybersoc.com). I also edit and publish an online magazine called Cybersociology (http://www.cybersoc.com/magazine). <robin@cybersoc.com>

Yi Han Meh, Sociology, Korea.

My interest is in general sociology. <jacki69@hanmail.net>

Jan Harris, Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Social Research, University of Salford.

My research involves an attempt to articulate a reading of cyborg body through the thought of Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, and Kittler. I am interested in the way in which bio-technology in particular reconfigures our conception of the subject. <janllh@hotmail.com>

Garry Haywood, Wannabe Guerilla.

I am currently a consultant specialising in technology and economic development, but economics is merely the flip side of culture. I am interested in the socio-cultural implications of cyberisation, specifically the role it has struggle for global hegemony. My link will take you to Virtual Trench Warfare pages, which is an aged (5 years) though still pertinent look at the role of cyberspace from a wide Gramscian perspective. I fundamentally believe that we are the point of an epochal shift in economic and social relations akin to that of the enlightenment and industrial revolution and I am interested in dialogues that engage such a thesis. <garry@urbstrat.co.uk>

Bhaskar Hazarika, Chief Education Content Developer, Friday Corporation.

I would be extremely grateful if someone could guide me to resources or individuals who are working on bringing education on-line by over-riding concerns of the presence of a "physical person" who tutors a child in front of him/her. Is it possible to sustain three to four years of curriculum based education on a chat/BBS model? It will solve a lot of problems for students in India where good educators are concentrated in the urban centres only-which means only about 25% of the total student population has direct physical access to them. <bhaskar@fridaycorporation.com>

Bonnie Himsl, Undergraduate Student in Psychology, University of Lethbridge.

I am interested in researching the concept of virtual communities, particularly how we can define them as communities in terms of the unique language used. Is there an etiquette that must be followed, and if so, does it vary from community to community? How much emotional investment do people make in their communitiis, and do they react negatively to outsiders who do not follow the rules for language and etiquette? What are the ethics involved in studying this issue? <gedlbl@uleth.ca>

Peta Hinton, PhD Candidate, School of Sociology, University of New South Wales, Australia.

I am currently examining the conceptual foundations informing cyberspace discourse to date. I am particularly interested in the body/machine split from which many extrapolate on the ramifications of text-based computer-mediated communication. Based on an alternative approach to this body/machine interface, I am researching the 'political' possibilities of textual interaction in cyberspace communities. <p.hinton@unsw.edu.au>

Robin Hodge, Lecturer, University of Ulster.

My Main interests lie in the role and impact of the Internet on communication -- not only on a transnational but also on a colloquial scale. Does it have an affect? There are social consequences on minor personal scales but outside of this...? <shamrock89@hotmail.com>

Colin Hood, Freelance Writer/Editor, Pluto Press Australia.

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Ulli Hulsmans, Department of Communication, KULeuven (Belgium).

My interests including Cyberculture in general; I shall be using a more sociological approach to define and contextualize Cyberculture. It is our aim to investigate whether or not the next century will be cybercultural. <ulli.hulsmans@student.kuleuven.ac.be>

Ben Hyde, Researcher & Multimedia Designer, IT Research and Development Unit, The London Institute.

Currently I am preparing an e-paper that will consist of a design proposal fo and subsequent dialogue about a collaborative environment intended to support the development of "communities of practise." This will be presented in a variety of ways: as a narrative and in a more tradition academic article format, both will be presented as predominantly text and audio-visual which will hopefully cater for different audiences. Some of the areas I intend to examine include: presentation of the individual and resources; use of meta data to dynamically track and identify the above; the ability to alter your perspective on the data presented (zoom in and focus); and identifying relationsips (associations, similarities, affiliations or antagonists). The system is intended to provide support and present connections between both people and resources. Do let me know if you have any thoughts on this topic or useful references! <b.hyde@linst.ac.uk>

Jonathan Ilvarez, Director, Radio Station UNAM, Mexico.

We love the digital culture, we are studying about it. We are from Mexico, and we advocate a Concept of Radio for the "Digital People." <RAPRE@tec.com.mx>

Bob Jacobson, Ph.D., Culture Champion, Futurize Now.

My interests include networked society, the gift economy, remote collaboration and distributed collaborative technology, virtual worlds technology, and the design of experience. I am currently establishing experience-design.com website. <bluefire@well.com>

Patrick Jacquet, Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Paris 8 St Denis, France.

My interests include philosophy of knowledge, epistemology, computer-human interaction, and cultural and social transformation in CMC society. <pj@worldonline.fr>

Troels Degn Johansson, Assistant Professor/PhD Scholar, Copenhagen IT University/Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute.

Setting off from semiotic and phenomenological traditions, my current research concentrates on pictorial representation in and the epistemology of cybergeography with a special focus on the use of popular visual computer media -- eg. webcams, QuickTime VR, VRML, AW, RealMedia -- in the representation of change in landscape and urban space. As a pespective I also discuss these topics in terms of digital aesthetics, modernity, subjectivity, and critical theory. My background is an MA in Film and Media Studies, and an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies in the Humanities. I am currently affiliated a planning studies department at an applied research institute. <tdj@fsl.dk>

Chris Jones, Research Student in Writing, University of Western Sydney.

My interests include cybernetic fictions and theory fictions. <ccjones@turboweb.net.au>

April Keith, Student, Tipperary Institute.

I am interested in the interaction between people on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). I am focusing specifically on the use of the @ command to foster notions of popularity, and the relationships people form within different networks and channels. I would appreciate and comments or assistance. <akeith@student.trbdi.ie>

Dominic James Kelly, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Durham University.

I am a 3rd year student at Durham University studying Anthropology and for my dissertation I have decided to specialize in the concept of cyberculture. I require some literature which may help me in my plight! My interest are really how the internet may help in Globalization, and what the effects are; or may be. If anyone is interested in the same field, or can recomend any literature please e-mail me and let me know. <D.J.Kelly@Durham.ac.uk>

Linda Larson Kemp, Technology Division, Software Productivity Consortium.

My interests include knowledge management, systems science, cybernetics, complex adaptive systems, cognition, and business culture. <kemp@software.org>

Michelle R. Kendrick, Assistant Professor of English, Program in Electronic Media and Culture, Washington State University, Vancouver.

My interests are visual literacy for New Media, technology and subjectivity (primarily race, ethnicity, gender and theories of embodiment), and war/technology studies. <kendrick@vancouver.wsu.edu>

Mohanmeet Khosla, Department of Mass Communication, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

I am currently doing my PhD on the compulsive use of the Internet, taking the user and gratification theory as a base. <mohanmeetkhosla@hotmail.com>

Max Kilger, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Queens College/CUNY.

I am a sociologist/social psychologist by training. My current research involves the social impact of digital technology. My interests include the effects of computers on identity (for example see "The Digital Individual" either on the net or in Information Society) as well as currently writing a book entitled "The Computer Hacker Counterculture: A Look Inside the Hacker Community". I draw upon both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in my research. <kilger@pixie.soc.qc.edu>

Katie King, Associate Professor, Women's Studies Department and Program, Affiliate Faculty in Comparative Literature and American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park.

Feminism and writing technologies investigates specific technologies--such as, alphabet, moveable type, index, pencil, typewriter, xerox machine, computer, internet--which are historically and currently enmeshed in multinational divisions of labor. It places this investigation inside a critical analysis of the colonial history of descriptions of orality and literacy, the investments of feminism in specific ethnic, racial, sexual, national literacies, and the international systems of publication and copyright which today affect both academic and market values.<kk15@umail.umd.edu>

Matt Kirschenbaum, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Virginia.

My main project at the moment is my hypertext dissertation entitled Lines for a Virtual T/y/opography. I also maintain a separate Web site devoted to on-line references and resources for electronic theses and dissertations, including a directory of other such works currently in progress. My teaching includes undergraduate courses in cyberculture and computer-assisted composition. I work with both the network-wide Romantic Circles project and the Emily Dickinson Hypermedia Archive. An additional current interest is using VRML as a tool for mapping large volumes of textual data in three-dimensional environments. <mgk3k@virginia.edu>

Robert Kolker, Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park.

My interests are in digital cultures, digital visual technologies, multimedia authoring, especially as applied to cinema studies. <Robert_Kolker@umail.umd.edu>

Louis J. Kruger, Associate Professor and Director, School Psychology Program, Northeastern University.

My colleagues and I have developed a computer-mediated, professional development community for school psychologists. I am interested in theory and research pertaining to computer-mediated communities; in particular, those communites that provide support, promote learning, or help people solve problems. We use our computer-mediated community as a laboratory for our research. <counsel@neu.edu>

Juli (Juliann) Krute, L.L.M. Candidate, University of London/J.D. Candidate, University of Texas.

My principle area of research focuses on self-regulation, particularly in the context of MUDs, MOOs, and MUSHs. I'm exploring the comparisons and contrasts between "gentlemen's agreements" in virtual communities and the underlying laws. Among the questions I am asking is, to what extent should the community agreements be allowed to override national legislation? <juliann@people-are.strange.com>

Sachin Kumar, Student, Brunel University.

I am currently studying Cybernetics and Media Studies with Computer Systems. I would like to get into the field of Internet enginnering and Networking. I am currently finishing my final year project. This project is on Cyber Culture and Cyber communications. If anybody has any information that would be helpful to my project please e-mail asap. <ee00jrp@brunel.ac.uk>

Joyce Lamerichs, PhD Student, Department of Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands.

I am a PhD student, conducting research into electronic communities/discussion groups. Specific points of interest include aspects of online identities, emotional discourse online, learning in online communities, and online self-help-groups. I am interested in engaging with others to write an article or be informed about seminars/workshop that are to be held in the near future. I am also interested in unique case-studies, since I will conduct a textual analysis of some interesting cases, with the help of discourse analysis. <joyce.lamerichs@ALG.VLK.WAU.NL>

Gianna LaPin, Student, Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

I'm currently conducting research on how interaction between people using CMC influences personal identity and how sex-role socialization is affected in women who are involved in the computer culture. I am also interested in and would like to correspond and share information with others in the following areas: non-"verbal" cues in CMC, female hackers (both the old-school and new-school senses of the term), identity formation though role-playing in MUDs and "posing" in IRC and chatrooms, how computer use affects individuals daily lives and how it influences how we relate to others in the real world. <gianna@csd.uwm.edu>

Jenny Leugers, Student, Ohio State University.

I am interested in finding out how members of virtual communities communicate. More specifically, I am interested in the role of communication within virtual communities and cybercultures. Any help would be great! <jleugers@columbus.rr.com>

Mitchell Lifton, Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Maryland.

We are in the process of developing a program which explores the possibilities and difficulties of digital narration, by approaching the subject theoretically as well as practically. Courses are already being taught, and the advanced course, The Art & Science of Digital Narration, is involved with the creation of a digital version of a major motion picture which is in pre-production (as of this writing). We would welcome any collaboration with those whose interest is in the evolution of narrative into the digital world. <ml26@umail.umd.edu>

Walter Logeman, Psychotherapist, Psybernet.

My interests include Depth Psychology and spirituality on the Net; Explorations of psyche via the Net; Online interaction and the role of the host moderator. <walter@psybernet.co.nz>

Karen Lollar, Human Communication Studies, University of Denver.

My current research project focuses on four Denver neighborhoods actively involved in using the discussion board on neighborhood websites created by Neighborhood Link. My study seeks to understand the meaning of community for the participants in the discussion board and the contribution of the online interaction to their experience of neighborhood community. <klollar@du.edu>

Svante Loven, PhD, Comparative Literature, Uppsala University.

My interests include science fiction and utopian fiction related to Virtual Reality and artificial intelligence, with emphasis on how Virtual Reality and other kinds of technologically-generated artificial realities have been projected in fiction in pre-computer eras. <svante.loven@littvet.uu.se>

Sangeet Grace Lynis, Travel Journalist, Soul Aesthetics.

I am involved in an arts council "Soul Aesthetics" dedicated to facilitating global cross cultural exchanges. We are examining website hosting & the ISP function as a way to promote cross cultural exchanges vis a vis internet access to local members of a small island community. We are interested to know if others have developed any research/projects that are similar.<mvsoul@hotmail.com>

Alec MacLeod, School of Consciousness and Transformation, California Institute of Integral Studies.

I am interested in the visual epistemology of cyberculture, particularly the emerging pictographic language of icons and other semi-linguistic visual aids in navigating the web. By extension, I am interested in the ways in which the web may either model the process of human consciousness and cognition or be informing it. My background is in the arts and in aesthetics and would appreciate being in touch with those of similar interests.<bacalec@tmn.com>

Paul M. Malone, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.

I am interested in virtual reality technology and its impact on live performance arts, especially theatre; computer imaging technology and film; and German cyberculture. <paul_m_malone@msn.com>

Doreen Maloney, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts/New Media, Unversity of Kentucky.

I am interested in the affects of cyberculture on perception. I am a video artist and 2D animator, with research interests in visual culture, and surveillance technology (micro technology). <dmalone@pop.uky.edu>

Manny Manuel III, Assistant Professor, Business Administration, College of Business Adminstration/University of the Philippines - Diliman.

I am currently looking into possible research in the following areas: 1) Corporate cyberculture vis-a-vis Educational Institution cyberculture - are they similar or do they possess many differences?; 2) Impact of Internet and Intranets on Universities - has being online facilitated the education process? and 3) Information Ethics and Security in Universities - does this exist? If not, what are the obstacles/hindrances to it being in place? I would appreciate any help in these areas. Thanks! <manuel@cba.upd.edu.ph>

Tracy Marks, Windweaver Web Training, Arlington, Cambridge Center Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, psychotherapist, and author.

My interest is understanding email communication and relationships and how they are similar to and different from face-to-face interactions. Focusing on: 1) the internal images we create of others online, how we project, and how we allow people online to become real for us; 2) understanding the feelings catalyzed by online relationships; 3) examining their possibilities and limitations; 4) creating guidelines for communicating effectively online and establishing substantial virtual relationships. <tmar@tiac.net>

Micheal Martens, Graduate Student, Department of Religion, Culture, and Ethics, Trinity Western University, British Columbia.

I am studying the relationship between religion and the Internet, specifically what kind of spirituality/theological visions are 'encouraged' or 'authorized' in a Virtual environment. My interest extends into what the ethical (social) implications might be of such a radical change in the widespread use of a technology that affects language so directly. My thesis will compare and contrast various philosophical systems with respect to their visions of the future of cyberspace, including the real affects of changing what it means to be human and opening up our definition of community will have on both those 'inside' as well as 'outside' the framework. <mikemartens@hotmail.com>

Mark McLelland, Research Assistant, Japanese Studies, Hong Kong University.

I am currently researching the use of the Internet by Japanese gay men. My research suggests that in the case of Japan, the 'globalizing' effect of the Internet is subordinated to what are in fact very 'local' uses: meeting friends, organizing sexual encounters, and providing easy access to pornography which can be enjoyed and disposed of quickly (an important consideration in Japan where marriage and the family are central to many gay men's lives). I have several publications on Japanese gay men's use of the Internet currently in press and would be interested in talking with other researchers who are working on sexualities in Asia or on gay men's use of the Internet in any society. From April 2000, I will be moving to the University of Queensland, so contact with Australian researchers would be very welcome. <markmclelland@hotmail.com>

Bradford McCormick, Web Developer, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College Columbia University.

My interest is building a good society through dialog facilitated by technology. I study communication media innovations past, as well as present, to diagnose the birth defects of the present age, as an aid to overcoming its misfortunate aspects without abandoning the humane hopes implicit in critical reason and material progress. I employ such notions as Toulmin's alternative path to modernity thru Rabelais et al., Habermas's "discourse ethics", Husserl's vision of the human world becoming accountable to humans, and D.W. Winnicott's "facilitating environment." <bradmcc@cloud9.net>

Anat Tesler Mesika, Department of Literature, University of Tel Aviv.

My interests revolve around cyborgs, philosophy, technology, gender, culture, feminism, and literary theory. <teslerme@post.tau.ac.il>

Tim Middleton, Department of Literature Studies, Ripon & York College.

My interests include cyber theory, web design, and cyber subjectivity. <t.middleton@ucrysj.ac.uk>

Adrian Mihalache, Fulbright Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University.

My Fulbright Research project is entitled "Information Quality Assessment and Cultural Diversity Promotion on the WWW." My work on cyberculture is based on Anthropologic fieldwork methodology. <adrian_mihalache@hotmail.com>

Mark Miller, MBA Student and Software Developer, Smurfit School of Business - University College Dublin.

I am interested in the practical ways in which the web can be used to link 'mortar and brick' communities together more effectively, and how to get the commercial world to contribute to this process. Specifically I am interested in the problems of making this type of web application compliant with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and how to present a real community online in a manner that keeps it 'clean' from a parents point of view, without jeopardising the basic tenets of freedom of speech, and expression. <mmiller@moondance.com>

Matthew Mitchell, Student, Department of Professional Studies, Gonzaga University.

My current research interests include the following: The "Digital Divide"; Social justice in information societies; Diversity and technology; Futures Research; and Ethnographic research in cybercultures. I am trying to finish my doctoral dissertation on the digital divide. The title of my study is "Exploring the future of the digital divide through Ethnographic Futures Research." <mmlmitchell@yahoo.com>

Steve Mizrach, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida.

My research interests are: hackers, ravers, modern primitives, and other technological subcultures; indigenous peoples' use of emerging electronic media; cybernetic models of consciousness; anthropological futurism; ethnographic study of virtual communities; the influence of cyberspace on identity. <seeker1@anthro.ufl.edu>

Yegor Moroz, MA student, Center of Gender Studies, EHU.

I'm interested in shapes & forms of gender identity in cyberspace and addictive behavior. <yegor@bspu.unibel.by>

Dr. Perry Morrison, Consultant, Morrison Associates Pty, Ltd.

Currently I am internetting most of the remote Aboriginal communities of Northern Australia from the central desert to Arnhemland (Yothu Yindi country). I'll establish a Web page soon to keep the Net informed of the interesting dynamics of this process. <perry@octa4.net.au>

Margot Moses, Journalism Honours Student in TV, Rhodes University, South Africa.

I am currently researching the demographics of the Internet - the profile of those online and the implication for those who are not connected. I will be conducting this research from an African perspective. In this country there is a huge gap between the info-haves and info-have nots, all of which have an extreme impact on our African cyberculture. When juxtaposing the USA with Africa, the USA has 74 million Net users compared to our 1.94 million. My project will aim to create a profile of the "African Internet user" by looking at factors like race, income, living conditions etc. I will also be looking at the infrastructure of networking in Africa. Ten years ago it was not feasible, now it is in a small percentage of our homes but still not very accessible to the rural community. Any comments would be appreciated. <g9730912@campus.ru.ac.za>

B. Mulrine, Lecturer, Department of Applied & Community Studies, Bradford Community College.

My interests include: cyberculture & development; cyberculture & the media; and cyberculture & identity. <bmulrine@bilk.ac.uk>

Mary M. Munro, Consultant & Masters Student, University of Toronto.

I am interested two main areas: one corporate, one academic - and then how to merge the two, if possible. 1) I would love to know of a listserve or virtual community that discusses Web-based instruction for corporate needs, such as training and development, knowledge management and organizational development and creating an adoption framework for organizations moving toward new technologies. Is there a favorite software being used for online training that has synchronous capabilities? 2) Secondly, I am interested in the development of a social pedagogy for distance education and how social interactions might help learning. Along with this, I am interested to know of any on-line decision making tools and negotiation tools that might be used in collaborative, social environments.<mary.munro@cgi.ca>

Kym Nuttall, Department of Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato.

I am researching fan communities (pro-wrestling) online towards my MA. I would like to make contact with other students/academics who have interests in this area, to discuss challenges, and to find out how they managed the ethical issues surrounding internet research. <kymmage@yahoo.com>

Susan O'Connor, Departments of Sociology, Anthropology & Archaeology, The University of Queensland.

My research interest focuses on software design as site of cultural reproduction. <sueoconnor@mailbox.uq.edu.au>

Jose L. Orihuela, DigiLab, University of Navarra.

My interests include: Narrative and New Media, Hyperfiction, Non-linear writing teaching. <jlori@unav.es>

Brian Ott, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Department of Speech Communication Colorado State University.

My primary research interests in the area of Computer-Mediated Communication are (1) the intersection of television and the Internet, (2) technology and consciousness, and (3) identity politics. <bott@vines.colostate.edu>

Anantha Padmanabhan, Senior Consultant, IBM.

Hi, I'm interested in trying to understand the qualitative nature of the electronic medium. How does it compare/contrast with other media, such as audio/video etc? I would like to understand how communities evolved when a new medium is introduced: ie, the effect it has on work, play and all sorts of things human endeavors. <ananthapus@yahoo.com>

willi paul (aka william george paul), Online Community Consultant.

My interests include: new commuity / knowledge management products; expert programs; eLearning teams; emerging B2B community models; community group event design / facilitation; process management; and design prototyping. <willi@willipaul.com>

Mike Philson, Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education.

I'm primarily interested in the issues concerning faculty collaboration using the Internet and the Web in an international context. I see the emerging information technologies as offering tremendous opportunities for faculty in countries around the world, particularly those in "developing" regions, but the possibilities for academic collaboration are somewhat muted by a variety of circumstances. Of particular concern are those components of the communication/collaboration process that inhibit or restrict interactions across national borders (economic, political, cultural, etc.). <philson@umich.edu>

Jeanne Posner, Professor of Communications and Theatre Arts, Western Connecticut State University.

My interests include the specific ways in which the Internet is reorganizing the structure and functions of social/face to face communication settings, especially schools; and the "cyberculture" of lesbians, with a current focus on intimate and homophobic communication in lesbian cyber "communities." <Posner@WCSUB.CTSTATEU.EDU>

Ulli Purwin, Student of Free Arts, Alanus Hochschule Alfter / Germany.

I truly believe that individual art is about to vanish - in our days artists need to cooperate interactively, including with the socalled "public," giving everybody a chance to take part in creation processes. My own contribution to this development: the introduction of CFML (Cold Fusion Markup Language) - relational database-orientation as a useful alternative to java-based applications, which always tend to stay local (on the clients side), neither able to be indicated, searched, restorable nor printable. <ulli@purwin.de>

Guadalupe Ramirez, Maestro, Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora, Mexico.

My interests include: Educational On-line models and Distance Education models. <gramirez@itson.mx>

D. Venkat Rao, School of Critical Humanities, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages.

My interests include: new technologies, cyberculture, communications and image studies, translation studies, and critical Indian studies. <telvenkat@usa.net>

Darren Reed, Ph.D. Student, Discourse and Rhetoric Group, Department of Social Science, Loughborough University, England.

As a sociologist, I am particularly interested in the notion of social order as the product of textual and conversational practices on USENET newsgroups. I'm looking to develop and apply the insights of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to reveal such practices and their place in the structuring of cyber culture. <d.j.reed@lboro.ac.uk>

Richard Reynolds, Author, New Media Critic for CBC Radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) and NPR (National Public Radio).

I am writing a book about how networks will erode the institutions of government, for good and bad. For instance, how can a government regulate "broadcasting," when it is delivered over a computer network and is no longer broadcasting. What happens when online producers begin to produce their products in Liberia in order to circumvent domestic laws. Traditional methods of governmental control will become ineffective in a wired, converged world (just look at how ineffective the Communications Decency Act has been). I am also very interested in intellectual property laws as they relate to the Internet. <wrreynolds@insightnewmedia.com>

Charles Ross, Student/Groupware Developer, The Union Institute.

I am currently studying the Open Source movement (hacker tribe) for a paper that evaluates the hacker community as a Community of Practice. I work as a Lotus Domino developer and am hoping to become more of a general collaboration facilitator, regardless of the tools. I am still looking for someone else who has heard of Pierre Levy, author of "Collective Intelligence" and "Cyberculture." <ross.charles@epa.gov>

Kristina Ross, Executive Producer/Independent Scholar.

My interests include participatory culture, media history, orality and literacy, electronic arts and music, digital media production, information industry and organizational culture. <rossk@best.com>

Liav Sade-Beck, PhD in Social Psychology, Ben Gurion University - Israel.

My interest is in memorial webs on the Internet -- for example, the Virtual Wall for the Vietnam War or the Virtual Quilt for AIDS victims. I'm interested in all the aspects of memorial webs. <liavsade@hotmail.com>

Pamela M. Salela, Academic Resident Librarian, Miami University.

I am interested in Women's Studies (sociological issues, race issues) and issues in Edcational Policy Studies, including pedagogy, democracy, and race and gender. <salelapm@muohio.edu>

David A. Salomon, Department of English, Black Hills State University.

Other than my other literary and religious academic interests, I am interested in the ways technology is changing the world and the way we look at it. <davidsalomon@bhsu.edu>

John Aaron Sanchez, Student, Anthropology, University of Michigan.

My focus includes the time & space concepts and how they are being transformed by computers (internet); how artificial lighting, the facilitation of communications, and the implosion of the individual's space (due to the enclosing of the person through such activities as working, shopping, and mingling at home by means of the computer) are shaping our identities. <jasanche@umich.edu>

Geoffrey Sauer, Faculty, Techical Communication, University of Washington.

My interests include early history of publishing, intellectual property, cultural studies, online collaboration as a symptom of publishing market segmentation and differentiation in late capital. <geoffs@u.washington.edu>

Yannis Scarpelos, Lecturer, Department of Communication and Mass Media, Panteion University, Athens - Greece.

I am working on the social aspects of Cyberculture, and highly interested in the educational usage of New Technology. I teach a course on New Media. <gskarp@panteion.gr>

Jo Seurynck, Student, Department of Communication, Kuleuven (Belgium).

I'm doing research on how the Internet effects real-time cultural activities and social life. Does it displace them? Or does it have a positive influence on young people who are short of social or cultural possibilities in their neighborhood? If anyone can recommend any literature, please e-mail me and let me know. <Jo.Seurynck@student.kuleuven.ac.be>

Anne Shaw, Doctoral Student, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Austin.

Research for my dissertation focuses on the intersection of technology and critical pedagogy. This includes examination of multiple forms of media, especially the Internet, but also includes other media such as film, radio, print and television. Among the questions I ask are: What is the impact of, and what are the possibilities for, the use of the Internet in the dissemination of information on critical pedagogy? How may participation in cyberspace influence the role and structure of education, K-12 and postseconday, in our society? How can activity in cyberspace influence education in order that schooling in our society -- local, national and global -- may become an agent for social change leading to a more just and democratic society? In short, how can media, particularly the Internet, help schools to be a force in making the world a better place for everyone? The primary goal of critical pedagogy is social justice; critical pedagogy seeks to reduce or eliminate social inequalities and injustice based on membership to marginalized groups. Members of these groups are marginalized due to their race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, age, ability and so forth. <anneshaw@mail.utexas.edu>

David Silver, Adjunct Faculty Member, Master's Program of Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University.

My interests revolve around issues of participation and play within virtual communities and community networks. I am also interested in developing new ways to integrate the Internet into academic settings, both as online public forums and pedagogical tools. <dsilver@glue.umd.edu>

Bart Simon, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen's University.

My interests include sociology of knowledge, science and technology studies, virtual communities, social movements, and theory. <simonb@post.queensu.ca>

Mark Singer, Masters Student / Adjunct Professor, Parsons School of Design.

I am interested in exploring the convergence of television and the interactive. I am intrigued by the social aspects and individual psychology in which we as a society view and interact with TV and the computer. The possiblity, the dominance, and the ubiquity of television in our culture (by that I mean western) has changed our lives dramatically in the past 50 years. Seeing the effects of television (pro and con) and now the effects of cyber / interaction (pro and con) and the ultimate covergence of them gives way to a whole new culture of entertainment. <msinger@parsons.edu>

Irina Smirnova, Post-Graduate Student, Saint-Petersburg University of Social Sciences.

I am interested in communication subcultures of the Internet. <irina@uhss.spb.ru>

Martha Nell Smith, Professor, Department of English, Affiliate Faculty in Women's Studies, American Studies, and Comparative Literature, University of Maryland, College Park.

As Coordinator of the Dickinson Editing Collective, my primary research focus these days is producing electronic production performances of the poet's writings in the form of two CD-ROMs and a Web Site for the Dickinson Electronic Archives housed at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia. <ms63@umail.umd.edu>

Pedro de Souza, Teacher, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina.

Please excuse my limited English. I am interested in the interactions on the Internet. Particularly, I study the process of the emergence of new subjectivities in cyberspace. Currently, I am preparing a project of research about temporality and subjectivity, analyzing the way and the time of construction a virtual group. <souza@mbox1.ufsc.br>

Simon Stammers, Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Hi, I'm researching a project and paper discussing the effects of consumerism on the world and taking into account the rising of the internet. E-commerce is now the new big thing in commercialism and consumerism as it has now become one of the easiest ways to shop. What I would like to discuss is the effect that e-commerce has on the overall balance of consumerism as we are finding it easier to buy the things we want and not nessicarily the things that we need. If any one has ideas or information that could help me in my work I would be very grateful. Thank you. <skytzen@hotmail.com>

Andrew Stein, Professor and Psychotherapist, University of the Arts.

I'm currently writing a book that explores the relations between narcissism, aggression, and postindustrial culture including cyberspace. I'm especially interested in analyzing cases of hedonism and the compulsions to repeat in postindustrial society. <freud1899@aol.com>

Steve Stewart, Instructor/ Graduate Student, Vermont College of Norwich University.

I am beginning research on the portrayal of computers in imaginative literature and film. I want to include research and reading on techno theory, but I am having difficulty locating information. <sstewarts@mindspring.com>

Stephanie Stier, American Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich.

I am currently working on my M.A. thesis titled "Virtual, multiple identities? The consequences of virtualisation on the constitution of the self. The North-American disussion." So far I've done most of my research based on books (Turkle, Poster, Stone etc.) and just started my online research. Any interesting and valuable links or comments would help me a lot! <stephanie.stier@stud.uni-muenchen.de>

Denitsa Stoeva, Theory of Culture, Southwestern University, Bulgaria.

My interests include cybercultures, virtual communities, and identities. <denitsa@mobikom.com>

Fay Sudweeks, Research Associate, University of Sydney, and PhD Candidate, University of Wollongong

My research interests are social, cultural and economic aspects of computer-supported collaborative work; group processes in virtual communities; and computer mediated communication.<fays@arch.usyd.edu.au>

Timo Suojanen, Student, University of Helsinki, Finland.

I am studying social psychology. My main interests are virtual communities and identity in cyberspace. <timo.suojanen@helsinki.fi>

Emma Sweeney, Department of Dance and Drama Student, King Alfred's Winchester University.

I am researching for my dissertation of which I have to choreograph a dance. My hypothesis is Dance can be used as a medium for performance to express western societies dependeny on society? I am particularly focusing on the technology of communication as this is where my research has lead me so far. The key question that I am particularly interested in answering is What are western Societies dependencies? I would appreciate any information you could provide about western society and it's social developments especially looking to the next milleneium. <e.j.sweeney@wkac>

Bryan C. Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder.

I am interested in the specific methodological transformations involved in ethnographies of cyber-space and culture. Beyond the platitudes that sites are cultures, how should we change our research practices and pedagogy to reflect this shift? I'm also interested in the consequences of IT and CMC for the culture and structure of modernist organizational forms. Finally, as a nuclear critic, I'm also focused on how cyberculture promotes alternative narratives and imagery to contest official narratives of Cold War culture and history. I'd welcome conversation about any of these topics.<taylorbc@stripe.Colorado.EDU >

Riaz Tejani, Undergraduate Student, Deptartment of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego.

My research focuses upon the presence of race in cyberspace, and the implications of this on race theory in general. I am interested in the junction between social theory and technology, as well as in semiology as a tool for reading cyberspace as a text. <riaztejani@hotmail.com>

Suzanne Theberge, Sarah Lawrence College, New York.

I am studying the effects of email on people of my generation (teens and early twenties). How does it change our relationships? How does it change the way we interact with each other? I am more interested in how it changes the relationships people have with someone they already know, as opposed to people they meet on-line. How does email change the way we communicate with each other? Does it vary significantly when we are emailing peers as opposed to professors, parents or bosses, or does email break down boundries and put students on a more even grade with their professors? <stheberg@mail.slc.edu>

Walter Tonetto, President, The Tonetto Foundation, University of Indonesia.

My Foundation and company (Notus Enterprises Inc.) are exploring education-delivery models, in particular, ones targeted on the S.E.-Asian market. We are very interested in paradigm-breaking modalities, and in researching avenues of increasing global participation in knowledge-driven Net-provisioning. <tonetto@notus.co.id>

Shauna Turnbull, Researcher, Writer, Computer Analyst, and Student of Social Sciences at Roger Williams University, Providence, RI.

Actively researching the dynamics that exist when individuals of specific cultures are exposed to and interact with the Internet. This concentration focuses on issues of orientation and lack of exposure to the Internet's wide range of resources and focuses on how independent cultural groups view the Internet from the initial logon of the pc to the search fields in a variety of browsers. <sturnbul@bsg.citizensbank.com>

Adam Tyma, Master's Student, Department of Speech Communication, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

Hi. I am new to the field, but am quite interested in Technophobia and discussions of technophobia in Popular Culture. Currently, I am working with the Wachoski's Brothers "The Matrix" as a text, but am always looking for ideas or sources. I am also interested in "eXistenz" as a text for the complete merging, or the full creation of the cyborg. The notion of biologic machines also fascinates me. <adamtyma@hotmail.com>

Joel Vacheron, Assistant Graduate, Sociology Institute of Mass Communication, University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

My interests include ethnomethodological studies, visual studies and all problematics linked to sociological and anthropological approaches. <joel.vacheron@iscm.unil.ch>

Caspar van Meel, Student, Interdisciplinary Studies of Arts & Culture, University of Maastricht.

Hello, I am currently doing research for an article on subcultures and the Internet in the Interdisciplinary Journal for Arts & Culture called Mosaic. My thesis is that the Internet offer the opportunity to create more specific subcultures then any medium so far. Information can be redirected to meet the specific needs of almost every individual and every individual can find peers on the internet. How do people build their identity which process enables individuals to develop their own subculture. If you have any comments or know of papers which deal with similar subjects please let me know. Thank you. <sgtbaker56@hotmail.com>

Brigitte van Pelt, Professor, New Century College, George Mason University.

I am interested in how people communicate via the Internet as a means of gaining support and establishing friendships. It fascinates me that people self-disclose much more online than they do face-to-face and how they are able to make friends so quickly. It is so wonderful that people can find almost any kind of support online simply because the Internet opens boundaries and allows people to find their identity. <bvanpelt@ureach.com>

Benjie M. Wage, Professor, Department of Philosophy, St. Scholastica's College -- Manila.

I am writing a paper on the third world perspective of technology and philosophy. I would really appreciate if you guys out there can help me find other related studies on the same topic. thank you very much. <bmwage@cav.pworld.net.ph>

Geoff Walker, Master's Candidate, University of Northumbria.

I am currently surveying the use of groupware applications in on-line communities which will result ultimately as a baseline for my PhD on "Defining and Managing Knowledge in Communities of Practice." <geoffw@geoffwalker.net>

Bayu Waspodo, Graduate Student, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology Perth Western Asutralia.

I am a student in the School of Information System and have an interest in Decision Support System, Executive Information System, and Groupware. I'd like to know more about cyberculture in conjuction with Groupware. I am also working as an consultant in Information System and develop software in Information System. <pbayuwaspod@cc.curtin.edu.au>

Andrew Wenn, School of Information Systems, Victoria University of Technology.

My interests include the nexus between the social and the technical particularly in relation to global information systems; the rise of co-operative Internet communities; computer mediated communications; and business use of the Internet. <Andrew.Wenn@vu.edu.au>

Sean D. Williams, PhD candidate, Departments of English and Technical Communication, University of Washington, Seattle.

Presently my work consists of developing a concept I've called "The Theory of Electronic Argumentation." In a nutshell, I'm attempting to answer the question "How can one construct arguments in electronic media, specifically the WWW?" The project, at this point, is focused on theorizing a "postmodern" version of electronic argumentation that centers on something I've called "structured dissonance" which involves the interactions among media and how the web designer structures the resulting dissonance for a persuasive effect. The second part is seeing how this works out in the classroom by implementing a syllabus that moves my students from composing linear print arguments to composing electronic arguments that allow for dissonance but are still tightly structured. <maud1@u.washington.edu>

Leonard Williams, Professor, Department of History & Political Science, Manchester College.

My interests focus on the Net both as a teaching tool and as a social scientific laboratory. In my teaching, the emphasis is on using the Net to promote students' engagement with political life, develop their critical thinking skills, and help them apply social scientific methods to understanding cyberculture and cyberpolitics. <lawilliams@manchester.edu>

Eduardo Wyllie, Economics Course/Coordinator, Integrated Faculties of Central Planalt - FIPLAC.

My interests include commercial use of Internet, telecommuting and E-Commerce. People talk too much about marketing and sales through the Internet, but I'm much more interested in the many changes that occur when a firm starts using the Internet. Changes in the culture of the firm, in the family of the employees and in the local society. I'm also interested in knowing how Netculture can solve the many problems of cultural differences when making business to foreigners. Is there a strong Netculture, already? <edwyllie@nutecnet.com.br>

Lisa Yarborough, 1st Year PhD Student, University of Louisiana at Monroe.

I am a PhD student in the Marriage and Family Therapy field. I am interested in how the internet is or will change the way of therapy - from traditional face-to-face to online, chatroom, or e-mail therapy. If anyone knows of any studies or previous research in this area I would be very interested. <Yarborla@tribe.nlu.edu>

Alexandra Yatzik, Student, Department of Sociology, Kazan State University.

My interests include: modern subcultures, cyberculture, cyberpsychology, and identities in the Internet.<alexa1373@mail.ru>

Ahmed Aly Hassan Zahran, Student, The American University in Cairo.

The Student Union of our university is organizing its 6th International Student Leadership Conference which will be held on March 2001 and one of the discussed topics is Cyber Culture, if interested, please e-mail us at <aazahran@usa.net>