Living on Cybermind

Categories, Communication, and Control

• Author(s): Jonathan Paul Marshall,
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Pages: 355
• ISBN_10: 082049514X
  ISBN_13: 9780820495149
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Computers / Information Technology , Computers / Social Aspects , Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language , Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Literary Criticism / American / General , Psychology / Social Psychology , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Anthropology / Physical , Social Science / Customs & Traditions , Social Science / Demography , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family , Social Science / Sociology / Urban , Social Science / Regional Studies ,

Description:... Cybermind is an Internet mailing list, originally founded in 1994 to discuss the issues and problems of living online. It proved exceptionally fertile and is still going strong thirteen years later.
This book is an ethnographic investigation which follows Cybermind members in their daily lives on the List, and explores the ways they look at the world, argue, relate online life to offline life, use gender, and build community. Perhaps the most comprehensive history of an Internet group ever published, it includes detailed analyses using List members' own words and commentary, and develops a unique theory of the relationship between culture, the problems of communication, and the ongoing processes of categorisation. Living on Cybermind illustrates how behaviour is affected by the organisation of communication, and how people deal with the paradoxes involved in resolving ambiguity and truth in a situation in which presence is always on the verge of slipping away.