Galloway, Alexander; Thacker, Eugene
doi: 10.1145/1067721.1067722pmid: N/A
In this paper we explore the technological, philosophical and political aspects of networks through a series of condensed, interrelated analyses.
doi: 10.1145/1067721.1067723pmid: N/A
The following article aims at providing reflections on electronic interculturality and at investigating areas on action for conceptualizing and maintaining international communities. The main question investigated will be: What is specific about intercultural communication in a virtual community and where does this need to be considered? Relevant aspects and categories of virtual intercultural communication will be pointed out from both a software engineering and a communication perspective. The paper will look at opportunities and challenges of virtual communities for intercultural communication with the objective to enable barrier free communication, equal access opportunities and mutual exchange. Areas to be considered when designed the electronic media for the communities are identified.
Che, Haoyang; Zhang, Qiangfeng
doi: 10.1145/1067721.1067724pmid: N/A
A MOO is a text-based, multi-participant, user-extensible, object-oriented virtual environment in which users can interact with each other via the Internet polysynchronously (in synchronous and asynchronous time) and build meaningful artifacts. MOO technology provides us a single, low-cost, highly supportive venue for online activities. However, it is one of, the forgotten, virtual community border technologies. This paper gives an introduction to MOOs, presents the advantages and disadvantages of MOOs, and discusses the future potentialities of the MOO platform. Will MOOs experience a rebirth, or will they continue to stagnate as a legacy technology?
doi: 10.1145/1067721.1067725pmid: N/A
Online pornography has largely been defined by its negative, by the social and regulatory restrictions it engendered. This has helped to obscure the everyday sexual discourse that represents a common and important part of many online communities. A better understanding of the every day sexual discourse, these "small pornographies," may provide the keys to comprehending larger social organization and the links between our virtual online identities and our corporeal existence.
doi: 10.1145/1067721.1067726pmid: N/A
Underground innovation communities, such as hackers and computer game modifiers have formed a unique type of information sharing community. As the nature of their communitions evolved to take advantage of new technologies like computer Bulletin Boards and the Internet, the social structure of these communities evolved as well. Understanding how these communities are internally socially divided into innovative "Elites" and follower "Kiddies" can shed important light on these influential, if sometimes destructive, underground electronic communities.
doi: 10.1145/1067721.1067727pmid: N/A
This paper provides a brief overview and introduction to the intersections between queer theory and online community in the UK and USA in the 1990s. Different communities and theoretical paradigms that relate to this are examined.
Nolan, Jason; Levesque, Michelle
doi: 10.1145/1067721.1067728pmid: N/A
In this paper, we describe the techniques, methods and context for hacking humans using publicly available information found on the Internet.
doi: 10.1145/1067721.1067729pmid: N/A
The social and policy aspects of e-science are becoming more important as the social and technical infrastructure for it progresses. This essay presents the idea that we should pursue a reflexive perspective in its development, keeping in mind that e-science has the capacity to radically restructure current power relations in research institutions. However, it probably will not cause radical change, as much as exacerbate the already difficult situations that the virtual communities of researchers face in the entrepreneurial university.
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