Communication Arts and Sciences 497B: Computer-Mediated Communication

CMC TOPICS, ISSUES, and NEWS

HUMAN LANGUAGES, CMC, and the INTERNET

• Matt Wells and David Teather. English may not be the language of the Internet. The Guardian, 28 Aug 2000.
  • http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,360018,00.html
• Global Internet Statistics by Language
  • http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3
• Web Languages Hit Parade: A Survey of Language Use from the Babel Project (old but interesting)
  • http://www.isoc.org:8080/palmares.html
• Jennifer Lee. In China, Computer Use Erodes Traditional Handwriting, Stirring a Cultural Debate. NY Times, 1 Feb 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/01/technology/01LOST.html?0201ci
• William B. Hart. Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication. The Edge. 3 Jan 1999.
  • http://kumo.swcp.com/biz/theedge/iccmc.htm

INSTANT MESSENGER

• Joyce Cohen. Making a Statement, in Absentia. NY Times, 20 March, 2003.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/20/technology/circuits/20away.html

133t5p33k or LEETSPEAK: HACKER/GAMER SLANG/LANGUAGE

• Wikipedia entry for LEET
  • http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Leet
• SOMETHINGLEET.com
  • http://www.somethingleet.com/
• LEETSPEAK generator!
  • http://ryanross.net/leet/

POPULAR PRESS ACCOUNTS OF DIGITAL LIFE

• Nicolaus Negroponte's columns in WIRED Magazine
  • http://www.media.mit.edu/people/nicholas/Wired/
• Katie Hafner. Wired, but Drawing the Line
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/10/technology/circuits/10resi.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

CELLULAR PHONES, PAGERS, AND THE WIRELESS WORLD

• Jakob Nielsen. Mobile Phones: Europe's Next Minitel?
  • http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010107.html
• Alan Brender. Thanks to Cell Phones, Japanese Students Swap E-Mail Even in Class
  • http://chronicle.com/free/2001/01/2001011601t.htm
• Douglas Century. A World Divided Into Two-Way-Pager Camps
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/living/14NOTI.html?pagewanted=all
• Frank Derfler, Jr. Crossed Signals: 802.11b, Bluetooth, and HomeRF
  • http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2470132,00.html

PSYCHOLOGY, CMC, and the INTERNET

• Kraut, R., Lundmark, V., Patterson, M., Kiesler, S., Mukopadhyay, T., & Scherlis, W. (2000). Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being? American Psychologist, Volume 55, Number 12.
  • http://www.apa.org/journals/amp/amp5391017.html
• Michael Fenichel, Storm A. King, Steven E. Stern, Kimberly Young, John Suler. (2000). Healthy and Pathological Internet Use. Behavior OnLine Chate Events, October 24, 1999.
  • http://www.behavior.net/chatevents/transcript99-4.html
• On-line Clinical Work discussion group on OnLine Behavior's web site
  • http://www.behavior.net/cgi-bin/ls2.cgi?config=onlineclinical&uid=nC1M8.user&new=0

SPAM

• Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act of 2001
  • http://www.suespammers.org/us/hr95-20010103.shtml
• New crackdown on spam
  • http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/01/mailbox.htm
• Internet Fraud Complaint Center
  • https://www.ifccfbi.gov/

MEDICAL and CLINICAL USES OF CMC

• Freudenheim, Milt. Digital Doctoring
• http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/08/technology/08HAND.html?pagewanted=all
• The Detwiler Group Report on Health Websites
  • http://www.detwiler.com/html/presentations/Detwiler_report_200101.pdf
• Doctor Group Unveils Online Communications Policies, Reuters Health, 2000.
  • http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010109/hl/www_1.html
• Patients Look to Net to Help with Medical Care
• http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/healthcare/article/0,,10101_564911,00.html
• Pew Internet Project (2000). The Online Health Care Revolution: How the Web helps Americans take better care of themselves.
  • http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=26
• Behavior OnLine, the gathering place for Mental Health and Applied Behavioral Science Professionals
• http://www.behavior.net/

FANTASY SPORTS

• Alan Barra. A Flood of Sites that Make Every Fan a Steinbrenner. NY Times, April 18, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18BARR.html?searchpv=site01

B2B & EMPLOYEE TRAINING ON-LINE

• Susan Stellin. Employee Training, Without the No-Doz. NY Times, April 18, 2001
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18STEL.html?searchpv=site01
• Joseph Treaster. Moving the Accountants Out of the Building and Onto the Web. NY Times, April 18, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18TREA.html?searchpv=site01

   

The INTERNET and REGIONS OF THE WORLD

• Internet Changing Latin America. The Associated Press. NY Times, April 20, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nyregion/AP-Latin-America-Internet.html?searchpv=aponline

THE WORLD (WIDE) WEB CAMS

• Webcam World.com
  • http://webcamworld.com/
• Web Cams of the World (slow to load)
  • http://www.livewebcam.com/
• Amazing Live Webcams, from camscape.com
  • http://www.camscape.com/
• Live Web Cams: UC Berkeley
  • http://www.berkeley.edu/webcams/

WEB CAMS AND SELF-SURVIELLANCE

• Simon Firth. live! FROM MY BEDROOM. Salon.com, 01/1998.
  • http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/01/cov_08feature.html
• Katharine Mieszkowski. Candy from strangers. Salon.com, 8/13/2001.
  • http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/13/cam_girls/index.html
• Jennicam, life online (one of the original life-as-spectacle cams put up by Jennifer Ringley)
  • http://www.jennicam.org/

ON-LINE FINANCE AND STOCK TRADING

• Patrick McGeehan. For the Stock-Weary, Online Bond Trading. NY Times, April 18, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/18/technology/18MCGH.html?searchpv=site0

   

  The Jonathan Lebed Case

• James J. Cramer. There's No Defense for Jonathan Lebed. TheStreet.com, 3/2/01.
  • http://www.thestreet.com/pf/comment/wrongrear/1326876.html
• Robert Kowalski. 10th Grader Charged with Securities Fraud. TheStreet.com, 9/20/00.
  • http://www.thestreet.com/pf/stocks/brokerages/1090004.html
• Stacie Zoe Berg. Fraudulent Stock Schemes Still Vexing Investors, SEC. 12/16/00.
  • http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/investing/1216049.html
• Michael Lewis. Jonathan Lebed: Stock Manipulator, SEC Nemesis -- and 15. NY Times, February 25, 2001.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/magazine/25STOCK-TRADER.html?printpage=yes
• Gretchen Morgenson. Teen Settles Stock Manipulation Case. NY Times, September 21, 2000.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/21/technology/21TEEN.html
• Neil MacFarquhar. Named a Market Swindler at 15, He Likes Wrestling, the Mets and Penny Stocks. NY Times, 9/22/2000.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/22/nyregion/22FRAU.html
• Daniel Kadlec. Crime and Misdeminors.Time Magazine (time.com), October 2, 2000, Vol 156, No. 14.
  • http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,55712,00.html
• Peter Carbonara. The Kid and the Con Man. Money.com. 2001.
  • http://www.money.com/money/depts/investing/kid/index.html
• Jonathan Lebed Index Page
  • http://www.gaddisannotations.net/jr/jlebedindex.html
• S.E.C. Desist order September 20, 2000, against Jonathan Lebed
  • http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/33-7891.htm
• S.E.C. press release September 20, 2000, about the Jonathan Lebed case
  • http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2000-135.txt

INTER-CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL CMC

• Promoting Cross-border Communication in an International Web-based Graduate Course
  • http://imej.wfu.edu/articles/2000/2/01/index.asp
• CULTURA: French-American telecollaboration project at MIT
  • http://web.mit.edu/french/cultura/
• Kramsch, C., & Thorne, S. (forthcoming). Foreign Language Learning as Global Communicative Practice. In David Block & Deborah Cameron (eds.), Language Learning and Teaching in the Age of Globalization. London: Routledge.
• William B. Hart. Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication. The Edge. 3 Jan 1999.
  • http://kumo.swcp.com/biz/theedge/iccmc.htm

CMC AND FOREIGN / SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATION

• Scholarly Activities in Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Development, Pedagogical Innovations, and Research. CALICO.
  • http://www.calico.org/CALL_document.html

PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) TECHNOLOGIES: BLOGGING

• Rebecca Mead. You've Got Blog How to put your business, your boyfriend, and your life on-line. The New Yorker Magazine. November 13, 2000.
  • http://www.rebeccamead.com/2000_11_13_art_blog.htm
• Holly J. Morris. Blogging burgeons as a form of Web expression. U.S. News. January 15, 2001.
  • http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010115/nycu/blogging.htm
• Leander Kahney. The Web the Way It Was. Wired News. Feb. 23, 2000.
  • http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34006,00.html
• Tracking Bloggers With Blogdex.
  • http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,45546,00.html
• James Grimmelmann. Peer-to-peer Terrorism. Salon.com. Sept. 26, 2001.
  • http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/26/osama_bin_napster/index.html

CRYPTOGRAPHY

• Tom Berson. Cryptographic Abundance. Technology Review, January/February 2002.
  • http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/insight0102.asp

Comments or Questions? Contact Steve Thorne, The Pennsylvania State University