( And these few precepts.... )

SIDE Effects - Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects
This article draws from several sources to support points made about the connection between deindividuation and normative or antinormative behavior. It also talks about how there appears to be a breaking down of old social boundaries and the erecting of new boundaries.
( situational norms....makes sense to me. )

This one raises some questions for me....
( quantification of emotional content )

And....the phone rings with a dinner and drinks invitation jarring me out of my focus with a cacophone-y
( This article invites personal case studies, and that's what I'm presenting )

Here are a couple of links about distraction.
Attention Deficit Trait or ADT

Email makes you stupid

But then again, maybe ADD is just the human brain's adaptation to IT. No I cannot support that with scholarly research. Get back to me in ten years or something.

And not the thick red tangy kind that you dip your fries in...
( Two more articles from last week )

I read this one before realizing it wasn't on the to-read list, but I read it so here it goes.
( Leiner, Barry M. (Feb. 1997) The Past and Future History of the Internet. Communications of the ACM. Vol. 40 No. 2 )

That whole yahoo universe has been coming in under my radar... and I don't know how to get in on the class's yahoo group. Could someone spell it out for me?

Behind the cut is a message I recieved today in response to the TaiChi message I posted on the student listserv. I think it's an interesting example of how gender factors into CMC ( Read more... )

I just added K598, which is an ergonomics class. There will be a fair amount of chair measuring, Dr. Shea assures us, but his overall focus is on human factors and motor control, which is a theme I noticed as I was perusing some of the readings for this course ( Read more... )