Re: the psychology of cyberspace and virtual worlds

1999-04-05 Thread Richard Kapuaala
Jed Hartman wrote: > Richard (or do you prefer to be called Kahuna?) wrote: What ever suites you. I am Hawaiian, and since I first came to the mainland people have been calling me kahuna. >Author is Ursula K. LeGuin. I could talk about this book (and about > Thanks for the correction. >

RE: the psychology of cyberspace and virtual worlds

1999-04-05 Thread Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Plots drive action. So can an environment. One way to make Richard's approach work is to ensure the environment interacts as well. Rain drives people into doorways where interesting encounters happen.Guns drive people across borders where interesting encounters happen. To have intera

Re: the psychology of cyberspace and virtual worlds

1999-04-05 Thread Jed Hartman
Richard (or do you prefer to be called Kahuna?) wrote: >First on the gender issue. Read a book called Left Hand of Darkness. Author is Ursula K. LeGuin. I could talk about this book (and about gender and identity) for hours, but I'm trying to keep myself on-topic today so I'll spare y'all.

Re: the psychology of cyberspace and virtual worlds

1999-04-05 Thread Richard Kapuaala
First on the gender issue. Read a book called Left Hand of Darkness. I forget the name of the Author, (Think it was Ursal K La Gwin or something). She was the daughter of the Oakland Museum director who was Ishi's (Famous indian who wondered out of California Hills at the turn of the century) host

Re: the psychology of cyberspace and virtual worlds

1999-04-03 Thread Jed Hartman
Miriam wrote: >I am on another list for women in VR, and Teresa Rivera posted this link to >an amazing site: > http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/ I haven't read much of this site yet, but I do want to add a note about it. A friend of mine who's working on a thesis about online

Re: the psychology of cyberspace and virtual worlds

1999-04-03 Thread Dennis McKenzie
At 06:17 PM 4/3/99 +1000, Miriam English wrote: >Hi people, > >I am on another list for women in VR, and Teresa Rivera posted this link to >an amazing site: > http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/ Wow! This is a permanent bookmark for sure. Thanks Miriam. Dennis Geometrek VRML solutio

the psychology of cyberspace and virtual worlds

1999-04-03 Thread Miriam English
Hi people, I am on another list for women in VR, and Teresa Rivera posted this link to an amazing site: http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/ Fascinating stuff. Basically it is an online book of articles on the various issues surrounding virtual communities. What I have read so far