This is a list of ProjectH members, last updated September 1993.
ProjectH -- The People
Ray Archee, University of Western Sydney, Australia
r.archee@roc.nepean.uws.edu.au
Lecturer in communication, research interests in decision making,
computer mediated communication (both mail and bbs's).
Lecia Archer, University of Colorado, USA
archer_l@cubldr.colorado.edu
Graduate student in communication at the University of Colorado at
Boulder. Broadly, my interests lie within organizations.
Specifically, I'm interested in organizational CMC, especially CMC
within group support systems, multi-user environments. I'm currently
interested in anonymity in group decision support systems.
Alan Aycock, Canada
aycock@hg.uleth.ca
Ross Bender, University of Pennsylvania, USA
rbender@sas.upenn.edu
I teach ESL in the English Language Programs, University of
Pennsylvania. M.S.Ed TESOL University of Pennsylvania, 1991; Ph.D.
Premodern Japanese Culture, Columbia University, 1980. I have
published translations of Japanese Noh drama and contemporary poetry.
I am a computer neophyte. My software review of "Aspects:
Simultaneous Conferencing Software for the Macintosh" will be in this
issue of the CALICO Journal. Last year I gave a paper at the CALICO
conference in Monterey on "Readability Plus", a shareware style
checker. Currently reading Murray CONVERSATIONS IN ACTION and Kerr
and Hiltz, COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS.
Alex Black, Canada
al@debra.dgbt.doc.ca
Sharon Boehlefeld, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
boehlefeld@wiscssc.bitnet
Grad student in sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. My
interests in CMC have been in gender, community and social control
mechanisms. My master's thesis (which is from Northern Illinois
University where Jim Thomas was my thesis chair) was qualitative, but
I hope I can be of some help in the quantitative study as well. I'm
certainly willing to do some coding for the content analysis.
Luiz Henrique Boff, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
LHBOFF@VORTEX.UFRGS.BR
I have been studing subjects such as 'computer-mediated
communications systems' and 'computer-supported cooperative work'
(CSCW). I have been interested in social and organizational aspects
of information, information technology and decision making process. I
am doing a masters degree in business administration. Undergraduate
in social communications and postgraduate in business computer.
Bob Boldt, Educational Testing Service
rfb6411@vax.rosedale.org
Currently employed as Sr. Research Scientist at Educational
Testing Service. Special interests are quantitative psychology
and computer applications. Most recent research has been in
testing English as a Second Language. Undergrad and MS. at Iowa
State in Psych. and Statistics. PhD at Princeton in
Psychology (psychometrics).
Doug Brent, University of Calgary, Canada
dabrent@acs.ucalgary.ca
Background is in history and theory of rhetoric and composition
theory. I am also interested in literacy and orality, and in the
history of communications in general--I tend to study CMC in the
context of history of communications, as the latest stage in this
history. I teach in the Faculty of General Studies, an
interdisciplinary faculty that allows me to work in all of the above
areas. My research style is more qualitative than quantitative, but
I'm interested in both.
Jeutonne Brewer, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
brewerj@uncg.bitnet
I have participated in e-mail exchanges since 1980/81, starting with
a local BBS. I have submitted articles to print journal editors
through e-mail/Bitnet/Internet, depending on the system available to
the editor. I have just submitted camera-ready copy of a book, using
my desktop publishing system. I have long been interested in
introducing my students to the wonders, and yes the aggravations, of
these electronic wonders, but we didn't have adequate labs on campus
until about that time. In 1981, I presented a paper about using pc's,
usually called microcomputers, and using word processing in writing
classes at the 1981 meeting of the Assn. of Computers and Humanities.
For the past three years, Boyd Davis and I have been team-teaching
our courses by using e-mail. Perhaps team-planning is more accurate.
Our classes have at times participated in the same electronic
conferences.
Mark Bryson, University of Lancaster, UK
psa008@central1.lancaster.ac.uk
I'm 38, my wife is just finishing a degree in Womens Studies and our
sons are 19 and 15. I did a BSc in Biochemistry in 1975 and have done a
variety of things since then including teacher training, work in the
transport industry and in self employment. When micro-computers became
available I started programming a PET for our local junior school, this
lead to a job back at the Teacher Training college and about 8 years
ago to the University. I'm not a Psychologist, most of my time is spent
looking after and developing a Caucus conference system which is used
here for project and learner support, recent developments include a
full-featured voting mechanism and an email interface to conferences.
I'm supposed to be doing an M.Phil about CMC too.
Paul Burton, Strathclyde University, Scotland
paul@dis.strath.ac.uk
I'm a lecturer in the Department of Information Science at the
University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. My main teaching areas are
IT, research methodologies, information systems design methodologies
and the impact of IT at individual, organisational and social levels,
together with the more general theme of use of information (as
distinct from need/demand). My research interests include impact of
IT and information use and IRM in the voluntary sector: I'm also
interested in education and training of the information professional
(not least as course director for our MSc/PG Diploma course in
Information and Library Studies).
I've been in higher education since 1985: prior to that, I worked in
a variety of posts in academic libraries. I've authored a number of
papers and books, the latest of which) is *Information and Society:
implications for the information professions*. (Library Association
Publishing 1992). I have also presented papers at a number of
conferences throughout the world.
Personal interests include reading SF, J.R.R. Tolkien (when there is
time) andparticipating in the upbringing of two children (hence the
lack of time).
Bill Byers, Worcester State College, USA
byers@uconnvm.bitnet
BA Geology (1961), Colby College, Maine; MDiv Pastoral Theology, Bexley
Hall Divinity School; PhD candidate, Educational Psychology,
Instructional Technology, University of Connecticut. Publications:
Martin, P. S. & Byers, W. 1963. Pollen Stratigraphy at Wetherill Mesa.
Memoirs of American Archeology. Illustrations (Photographic illustrations):
Nigrosh, L. 1976. *Claywork and Ceramic Design.* Davis, Worcester;
Lindquist, M. & Byers, B. 1986 *Sculpting Wood: Contemporary Tools and
Techniques. Numerous photographic exhibits and illustrations in newspapers,
articles and books.
Employment experience: Research assistant in paleoecology, 1961-63, Desert
Laboratories at the University of Arizona; Associate rector, 1966-70,
All Saints Episcopal Church, Worcester, Ma.; Summer staff
instructor, 1968 and 1969, Hurricane Island Outward Bound School,
Rockland, Me.; Instructor summer staff, 1973-80, Maine Photographic
Workshop, Rockport, Me.; Associate professor of mass communication,
television production, photography and visual literacy,
1972-current, Worcester State College, Worcester Ma.
Current research: As part of the requirement for a Ph.D. in educational
psychology/instructional technology, I am examining a *Situated
Learning* model for instructing CMC procedures and strategies. A
comparison will be made between manuals and worked examples,
interactive tutorial, and realistic situation modeled after real-life
events.
Philip Calvert, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
philip.calvert@vuw.ac.nz
I am interested in helping taking part in the coding, as I have indicated
above. Unfortunately my teaching year starts next week so, like most
other people in that situation, will be very busy for a few weeks.
Should there stillbe a need for coding in March I will have some more
free time then.
I am a Lecturer in the Department of Library and Information
Studies. My main teaching area is Information Technology and Library
Auotmation.
My involvement with communication has increased considerably since
taking on the job of Hon Editor of New Zealand Libraries - the only
professional journal for librarians in this country. As this seemed
less than perfect for some forms of communication I started up - with
some invaluable help from the Computer Science Dept of VUW - a
discussion list for NZ librarians which I have called Colenso.
Membership of the list is still relatively small (about 20 at the
last check) but we are finding the list useful for some purposes.
Paul Chandler, Deakin University, Australia
chandlerac@brt.deakin.edu.au
I have watched people new to electronic messaging &/or asynchronous
computer conferencing really struggle to come to grips with what to
say and how to get into intersting discussions. I am interested in
the use of these 2 varieties of CMC as "classwork" - what
metacommunication and metacognitive skills are used and needed by
teachers and students. I am therefore interested in what feedback
about what parts of the "conversation" are valuable to those who are
starting out using CMC. It also strikes me that the "style" of
conversation on CMC might be better for learning in certain subject
areas rather than others, and this might be a very useful form of
feedback. I have not used CMC as described above - I have taught
myself the VAX and e-mail - very autodidatical. Is perhaps this it's
most important use? Going out to find one's "Holy Grail" in a given
subject area, and learning to make the best use of it. I also
operate a FidoNet BBS, and am setting up systems to help the K12
community get in contact with CMC more, as wel as pointing them in
the direction of certain resources, projects, etc.
Bob Christina, USA
christina@argo.acs.oakland.edu
Bob Colman, Penn State-Harrisburg, USA
RWC@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Social psychologist trained during the 60s at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since then, I've pretty much been at Penn
State at Harrisburg, where I coordinate the Master's Program in
Community Psychology.
Alicia Conklin, USA
alccc@cunyvm
Boyd Davis, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
fen00bhd@unccvm.bitnet
Historical and applied linguist who teaches in an English
department. My research is either on written texts left by dead
unreliable writers or on spoken and written texts by live unreliable
people; my major interest is in looking at how, over time
(short/long), people establish conventions that allow them to conduct
discourse. E-communication is thus doubly interesting to me. I work a
good bit with teachers.
Cheryl Dickie, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada
cheryl@writer.yorku.ca
I am an M.A. student at O.I.S.E. (The Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education) in Toronto, Canada, specializing in Computer
Applications. I have a B.A. in Art History, from York University in
Toronto. I became interested in computers in education through my
work at the Computer-Assisted Writing Centre at York University,
which began in 1987; my responsibilities there have included user
support, documentation, teaching, and software development. My
current project is to explore possibilities for asynchronous
multimedia computer conferencing on NeXT workstations. At O.I.S.E.
my focus is on computer-mediated communication; I am presently
enrolled in a course studying research methods in educational CMC.
Gordon Dooley, University of Durham, UK
gordon.dooley@durham.ac.uk
Patrick Edgerton, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA
p_edgerton@utpb.pb.utexas.edu
Kerstin Eklundh, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
kse@nada.kth.se
Research associate at the Interaction and Presentation Laboratory,
Department of Computing Science (NADA), Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm. I have been involved in research about
computer-based writing and communication since 1982. I earned my
Ph.D. in Communication Studies at the University of Link|ping,
Sweden, in 1986. My doctoral thesis concerned dialogue aspects of
two-party communication in the COM system.
Greg Elin, New York University, USA
eling@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Jill Ellsworth, USA
je01@academia.swt.edu
Scott Erdley, University of New York Buffalo, USA
c080gwn6@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu
I am in my last semester of the critical care graduate nurse program at
the University at Buffalo. Last year I started to work as a T.A. in
the School of Nursing's computer lab and became hooked on networks.
My particular interests include screening health care data for
faculty, the role of the clinical nurse specialist and clinical
information systems, and the role of the internet in the field of
nursing informatics.
Nancy Evans, University of Pittsburgh, USA
nancy@lis.pitt.edu
I am currently an Assistant Professor of Information Science at the
University of Pittsburgh. This is an interdisciplinary program; I am
a cognitive psychologist by training and research interest. Because
of some on-going long-term health problems, I am now working
completely from home on a reduced schedule. I teach through an
"External Studies" program at Pitt, writing lectures that students
read and fielding questions through e-mail and by telephone. I am a
novice on the Internet but very interested in it: I read 3
health-related discussion lists and have been fascinated by the
social process there; I am also interested in the possibilities of
using networks for remote teaching.
Nicky Ferguson, Economic and Social Research Council, UK
nicky.ferguson@a.prime.esrc.ac.uk
I have recently been appointed as Networked Information Officer by
the ESRC, (The Economic and Social Research Council), in the UK. The
idea is that I will be spending a substantial part of my time
promoting the use of janet and networked services amongst social
science researchers.
I will be particularly interested in encouraging the use of
distribution lists such as those on MAILBASE. But will also expect
to do some "introduction to JANET" work. I intend to run workshops
at conferences and to visit sites which have expressed enthusiasm for
extending the use of networked information services amongst their
researchers. I also hope to be a conduit for useful information on
specific social science resources, nationally and internationally.
I have produced a leaflet "JANET for social scientists" and have
asked Peter Stone to produce an equivalent for the Internet.
Sueli Ferreira, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
smferrei@bruspvm.bitnet
I am librarian, Master in Communication Science from University of
Sao Paulo, and finishing my PhD in Communication Science (also at
University of Sao Paulo, School of Communications and Arts). My
interest is in how people get information using the network, how it
can improve the exchange information between researchers, how it can
facilitate the access and use of grey literature or non-conventional
literature, and a better way to develop more interpersonal
communication. I am looking for the "invisible college" that results
on networks. To do that I have been working with a group of
researchers using new communication technologies applied to
education. They will be my core of people to analyse how they are
getting information and exchange information using network.
Peter Flynn, University College Cork, Ireland
cbts8001@iruccvax.ucc.ie
Peter has been Academic Computing Manager for University College Cork
in Ireland since 1984, providing the information, computing and
network service for students and research staff. Before this he
worked for United Information Services as Technical Consultant in
London, supporting pre- and post-sales work in information services,
communications, statistics, chemical and other scientific processing
and remote database access. Previous positions include working as
Deputy DP Manager for an Industrial Training Board in the UK, and
teaching Systems Analysis and Programming to students on business
training courses. Since 1988 he has also been a member of a private
consultancy consortium based in Cork. He has a HND in Business
Studies and an MBA in Management, and is the Deputy Director of EARN
for Ireland, Secretary of the Irish Computer Society (Munster
Branch), Secretary of RARE Working Group III, Secretary of the TeX
Users Group, and a participating contractor in several EEC projects,
including AIM (1022, CACOHIS) and DELTA (OSIRIS). Apart from
information services and networking, his interests are surfing, early
music, incunabula and typography.
Deanie French, Southwest Texas University, USA
dv02@swtexas
I am a professor in the Departent of Health Administration. My
master's degree is in psychiatric nursing and Ph.D.is in curriculum
and instruction with a specialty in media technology. My interests
include blending information and technology across healthcare
disciplines. I am the co-owner for DRUGHIED (a list for substance
abuse specialists in higher education) and the list editor for CPRI-L
(a list to share information related to computerized patient
records). My current research focuses on developing models to
evaluate healthcare electronic groups.
Al Futrell, University of Louisville, USA
awfutr01@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Louisville
with PhD in American Culture Studies. Researcher interests include
language patterns of deviant subcultures, prisoners, prisons,
hustlers, CMCers, etc. Use ethnographic and survey methods (although
rarely do full-scale ethnographies). Teach courses in research
methods, interpersonal, intercultural, and computer mediated
communication. Use CMC in all my courses for the last 3 years.
Stephanie Moskal Fysh, University of Toronto
sfysh@epas.utoronto.ca
I am currently completing my doctoral dissertation, "Technologies and
Texts: Studies in the Works of Samuel Richardson", at the University
of Toronto in Canada. Although much of my work is in
eighteenth-century printing and publishing, I am equally interested
in the nature of "text" in our virtual world, particularly on BBS's
and in USENET news groups. A large portion of my dissertation is
devoted to the relationship between communications technologies and
textual meaning, and I hope to expand on this work in the future.
John Garrett
0004716758@mcimail.com
Peter Gingiss, University of Houston, USA
englad@jetson.uh.edu
I am in the Department of English at the University of Houston, where
I have taught for twenty-two years. I am currently Director of the
English Computer Writing Lab. My Ph.D.is in Linguistics from
Northwestern University. Originally in African Linguistics, my
research interests have turned to sociolinguistics in general,
specifically in the differences between spoken and written English,
in indirect speech acts, and in language variation in the Southwest
of the United States.
Dean Ginther, East Texas State University, USA
dg5444@etsuacad.bitnet
Born in Chicago, BA in psychology from DePauw University, MA and PhD
in educational psychology from University of Illinois. Currently
Professor in the Department of Psychology and Special Education.
Interests: technology in education, learning, cognition, research
design and statistics.
Jay Glicksman, Enterprise Integration Technologies
jay@eitech.eitech.com
I am a co-founder of Enterprise Integration Technologies (a Bay area
R&D startup) and a project leader for the SHARE project which is
being undertaken by EIT and Stanford University. SHARE is examining
collaboration tools for mechanical engineers and spans all types of
computer-mediated interactions including multimedia email, audio and
videoconferencing, and information storage and retrieval/navigation.
Although the immediate application of our work is concurrent
engineering, we see much of it as generic groupware with broader
applicability. My research interests also include user interfaces,
artificial intelligence, and object-oriented databases.
Allen Gray, USA
gray@vxc.uncwil.edu
John Gubert
gubert@ukcc.bitnet
Kate Harrie, USA
Harrie@zodiac
Steve Harries, University of Brighton, UK
sph@vms.brighton.ac.uk
Anne Harwell
harwell@panam.bitnet
Paul Hellander, University of Adelaide, Australia
phelland@adam.adelaide.edu.au
Richard Henry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
henry008@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Richard Henry earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of
Minnesota in 1994. His book, _Pretending and Meaning: Toward a
Pragmatic Theory of Fictional Discourse_, is forthcoming from Greenwood
Publishing (August 1996). It is informed by the work of language
philosopher Paul Grice and examines the ways in which people employ
purportedly pretended acts to convey serious and sincere meaning. He
is currently extending this earlier work to longer stretches of
narrative.
Ping Huang, MIT, USA
pshuang@athena.mit.edu
Undergraduate/graduate student working on a '95 Masters of
Engineering (Computer Science) degree from MIT. Highly active on the
Internet (and previously on Fidonet). Interested in impact of
increasing ubiquity of electronic communication in social context
(pre-existing friends, significant others and long term relationship,
parents and children on the net but geographically separated) as well
as academic and commercial endeavors; implications of partial
anonymity of electronic communication for theories about racial,
cultural, age, and sexual bias; different writing styles depending on
expected audience; etc.
Noam Kaminer, USA
noam@info.berkeley.edu
Sandra Katzman, Stanford University, USA
katzman@leland.stanford.edu
Graduate Stanford student in a one year Master's program in Media
Studies in the Department of Communication. BA University of
California at Santa Cruz, English Literature, 1970. I'm in the early
phase of a project proposal about "emoticons" aka "graphic play with
ascii characters" for Computers Are Social Actors project, working
with Stanford Professor Cliff Nass
Yasuyuki Kawaura, Japan
lect013@jpnycu
Mavis Kelly, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong
etmkelly@cphkvx.bitnet
Senior Educational Technologist in the Professional Development Unit,
1989-present. BA(Hons), MA(Hons), PhD (Monash). Previously I have
been employed in Australia by the University of Queensland, Deakin
University, University of New England and the University of Sydney in
the fields of educational psychology and instructional development.
I have been an educational consultant/visiting fellow at the National
Institute of Multimedia Education (Japan), the University of the
South Pacific (Fiji), University of Waterloo (Canada), Macquarie
University (Australia). Research interests: development of reasoning
ability, approaches to learning in higher education, earning from a
computer tutorial, higher education policy.
Yitzchak Kerem, Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece
mskerem@pluto.cc.huji.ac.il
I am an historian on the Jews of Greece at Aristotle University in
Thessaloniki, Greece, and in Israel I am affiliated with Yad Vashem,
the Shalom Hartman Institute, and the Yakar Educational Foundation.
also am an historical filmmaker on themes connected to Greek and
Sephardic Jewry, and the Holocaust.
In the computer world, I edit the e-mail Sephardic publication
"Sefarad, The Sephardic Newsletter" and am expanding the Sephardic
Electronic Archives to include archival material and a genealogy data
base on Sephardic Jewry. I also co-manage the list MGSA-L in modern
Greek studies. I am currently interested in obtaining information on
scanners, OCRs, multi-media, and ways to integrate foreign languages
in e-mail use.
Mary Elaine Kiener, Michigan State University, USA
mekiener@msu.edu
Am an RN, PhD, with specialization in professional development,
especially as it relates to implementation of changes in practice.
One current project is to begin implementation of an on-line computer
support group for cancer patients and their families (with potential
expansion to other groups as well). Since use of the technology
itself is fairly new for most health care professionals, I'm
especially interested in how they begin to make use of the medium as
an alternative care delivery system....My specific interest and
involvement in this project is to become more familiar with how to
study/research/evaluate within this medium, and so how to begin
planning appropriate implementation/evaluation measures for my
unfolding project...
Elliot King, USA
king@loyala.edu
Lee Komito, University College, Dublin, Ireland
lkomito@irlearn.ucd.ie
Anthropologist interested in social and cultural aspects of new
information and communications technologies; especially with
implications for creation of new social networks and the emergence of
new cultures/communities (in the sense of shared obligations and
norms).
Joseph Konstan, University of Minnesota
konstan@cs.umn.edu
Assistant Professor in Computer Science. Ph.D. from University of
California,
Berkeley in Computer Science in 1993. Specialization in user
interface systems and human-computer interaction. Current research
topics include software support for building distributed,
collaborative applications; support for interactive applications over
low-speed network links; usage patterns in hypermedia browsing; and
use of programmable digital assitants and remote controls. Several
other pet projects on the shelf including:
The study of how users react differently to "newgroup messages" as
opposed to "e-mail" when in fact the messages are the same. For
instance, I'm interested in seeing whether readers of newsgroups
react differently (and have a different level of awareness of items
such as author and thread) from those who receive e-mail copies of
the same list.
Joan Korenman, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
korenman@umbc2.umbc.edu
My main interests are gender issues in electronic communications and
the operation of e-mail lists. In comparison to many of the other
ProjectH participants, I'm a newcomer to the world of electronic
communications: I started using e-mail in 1990, and found it
fascinating right from the start. My background, however, has
nothing to do with computers. I have a Ph.D. from Harvard University
in American literature (and my dissertation was written on a
typewriter in the days before word processors!). At present, I am an
Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies at the
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). In May 1991 I
started WMST-L, an academic Women's Studies list that now has more
than 1500 subscribers in 30 countries. I am the sole listowner (in
other words, I'm slightly crazy :-)). Though WMST-L is unmoderated,
I play a rather active role in guiding the discussion. I also produce
a daily digest that gets sent to about 200 of the list's
subscribers. As an example of the blind leading the blind, I now
find myself giving conference talks and workshops about CMC (most
recently "Take Back the Byte: Electronic Communications and Women's
Studies" at the National Women's Studies Association conference last
June), and I am currently collaborating with Nancy Wyatt of Penn
State on a study of WMST-L. I am also an associate editor of the
newly established Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture.
Stan Kulikowski
stankuli@uwf.bitnet
Deborah Lee
dol1@ra.msstate.edu
David Levine, UC-Berkeley, USA
levine2@cmsa.berkeley.edu
I am an asst. prof at UC Berkeley, studying workplaces, wages, and
employee involvement. My main interest in CMC is a project with
Libby Bishop on e-mail and BBs as employee voice mechanisms and fora
for employees to organize together to further their own interest. My
claim to fame (?) on this list is starting the ball rolling with
Levine's Law.
Justus Lewis, Ngee Ann Polytechnic,
Singapore dibsen@solomon.technet.sg
Justus H. Lewis, PhD(Edin), MA(Edin), DipEd(Tert)Monash I am
currently Principal Education Development Officer in the Educational
Development Centre of Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. Previous to
June 92 I was a Senior Lecturer in the Higher Education Advisory and
REsearch Unit at Monash University, Melbourne. My particular
interests are in student learning and the management of educational
change, particularly involving the application of technology.
David Lisbona
psycot3@ccsg.tau.ac.il
Freelance autodidact reseacher/practitioner of and consultant on
CMC. I've been using email since 1982 and have seen it develop from
a cottage industry into a gleam in people's eyes. My background is
business and software design and my CMC background is with the
commercial networks and services - Tymnet, Dialcom, Dialog,
Compuserve, Minitel and the like. I also teach Computing in the
Humanities at Tel Aviv University , and work on the building of
PC-based bibliographic databases.
Mazyar Lotfalian, Rice University, USA
mazyar@ruf.rice.edu
I am working on my PhD in Anthropology at Rice U. I am interested in
cultural studies of science and technology. I am involved in two
projects, currently: Media, the effect of images in distracded
situations. Second, textual production on the BBSs: what kind of text
are produced. How can we locate it between speech and written
language.
Rich MacKinnon
spartan@cup.portal.com
Clare Macdonald, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
mead@nada.kth.se
I work with Kerstin Severinson-Eklundh at the Royal Institute of
Technology in Stockholm where we are looking at linguistic aspects of
computer-mediated communication, particularly the use of repetition
in electronic mail dialogues. I am also interested in the expression
of emotion in interactive computer-mediated exchanges, and have been
looking at the use of social commands in MUD games.
Ed Mabry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
eamabry@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Assoc. Prof. of Communication, Dept. of Communication, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
Research Areas: Small Group/Organizational /Interpersonal
Communication. Current research interests include: communication in
electronic teams/work groups; organizational implications of CMC
[variously defined]; autopoiesis and related theories of self-
organizing social systems. Exemplar of current research relevant to
Project H: "User Innovativeness, Communication, and Leadership in
Computer-Mediated Performance Teams." Paper to be read at the annual
meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington,
D.C., May, 1993. Project H expectations: I haven't solidified
research priorities at this writing; opportunities to pursue ongoing
interests in language power and gender, argument-making, and
autopoietic theory of communicative trajectories in social
interaction seem quite evident.
Naor Mark, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
msnaor@pluto.cc.huji.ac.il
Graduate Student in the School of Business Management of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. BA in Business Management and Political
Science. Interested in: Decision Support Systems, CMC within
organizations, human-machine interface, and broadly at any other
intriguing compu-subjects that pops-up. Some regard me as a real
computers & communication-hacker, due, i guess, to the hours i spend
on my own machine on Bitnet, Internet and local BBS's :-). I'm also a
freelance computing consultant and software designer for PC-Based
systems, and from time to time I teach computing in colleges and
courses. BTW ,i do have some "bytes" of mass media background when i
was journalist, radio announcer, copywriter, musician.
Carole Marmell, University of Houston, USA
socwlr@uhupvm1.bitnet
Graduate student in social work, expecting to be finished on May 15,
1993, at 1:30 p.m. CDT :-) Graduated from Tufts University in June
1966 with a B.A. in psychology. Have spent most of the intervening
years in proofreading/editing, with a few short stints as welfare
caseworker in various cities. Am currently fascinated with computer
networks and their dynamics, although I'm planning on working with
people with AIDS when I get my MSW. I'm signed onto a motley
assortment of lists, including GENDER and SOCWORK.
Margaret McLaughlin, University of Southern California, USA
mmclaugh@almaak.usc.edu
Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and a member of the
extended faculty of the Program for the Study of Women and Men in
Society. My Ph.D. is from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Most of my recent work has been on accounts and
explanations. I co-edited a recently published Erlbaum voulme,
"Explaining One's Self to Others," and have a new book in the works
called "Intimate Decisions: Accounting for Risk-Taking in Sexual
Behavior and Courtship." I'm currently developing a new
undergraduate course on CMC in small groups. My CMC interests
include effects of external status characteristics on thread
development in USENET news groups, and networking for the homebound
elderly.
Robert McLean, Ontarioa Institute for Studies in Education, Canada
r_mclean@oise1.oise.on.ca
Ph.D. in experimental psychology (now it would be cognitive science)
from Carnegie-Mellon University, 1968; did early work on computer
control and instrumentation of psychology lab experiments. Came to
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 1968, in dept of
Measurement, Evaluation, and Computer Applications. Major interests
are in computer facilities for education, the Internet (particularly
developing K-12 access and uses), and CMC in education.
Ted Mills, University of Connecticut, USA
tmills@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Ted Mills is an American sociologist whose research interests lie mainly
in work, aging and religion. He is married to a behavioral geneticist,
Terry Werick, and has half a dozen children and stepchildren. He teaches
sociology at the University of Connecticut and also runs a computer lab
there to help faculty use computing in their teaching.
His involvement in ProjectH is the result of curiosity about a
handicapped son's experience in computer-mediated communication,
in which seeming social isolation and dependence on electronic
contacts led to close friendships and a very extensive and important
support group, both F2F and CMC. The research question of greatest
interest to him is one which cannot really be answered from ProjectH
data: Are the rules and criteria by which CMC is conducted
fundamentally different from those for F2F interactions? (Or, do we
need a new Goffman for CMC?)
Rosa Montes, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
rmontes@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I have lived in several countries
(India, Ireland, USA, Poland), and since 1980 in Mexico. My
background is in linguistics and I received my degrees from
Georgetown University where I was in the sociolinguistics program. I
work at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, a research
center at the UAP and am currently directing/coordinating the
Master's program in Language Sciences. Research interests include
discourse analysis, the development of communicative competence (my
Ph.D. dissertation was on self- and other-repairs in child-adult
conversations) and language interaction in school settings. I am
just beginning to explore the possibilities of computer
communications. At the moment, I am using the computer for e-mail
and to access information (bibliographic references, software,
databases, corpora, etc) that might be of use to the teachers and
students in our program. However, as I said, I am beginning to
explore, very tentatively, the possibilities which open up through
electronic communications. In Mexico, the norm is not to be
connected. For example, at my university, the State university of
Puebla with about 40,000 students, I am one of 23 people with
Internet access (the other 22 are the members of the Physics research
institute) and the accounts are "loans" from a private university in
the area. Married to an American linguist, we have three children
(14, 11 and 3) and my ambition is to learn how to play the blues
harmonica.
Michael Muller USA
michael@advtech.uswest.com
Judy Norris, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada
jnorris@oise1.oise.on.ca
RN and EdD candidate in Education in the Measurement, Evaluation and
Computer Applications Department. I'm studying Computer Mediated
Communication and have an interest in online education and
intellectual collaboration for nurses. A current project is using
CMC to facilitate the study of Parse's Theory of Human Becoming for
an international interest group.
Carole Nowicke, Indiana University, USA
cnowicke@ucs.indiana.edu
BA History, Western Michigan University, MLS University of Maryland
(archives). Currently a doctoral candidate in library and
information science at Indiana University. Job history: Henry Ford
Museum, curatorial assistant; U.S. Marine Corps Museum, Curator of
Military Music; U.S. Navy, Archivist of Navy Laboratories, etc.
While here at Indiana have worked at the Kinsey Institute on Sex,
Reproducation and Gender, now working at Indiana Drug Prevention
Resource Center (plus 3 other part-time jobs), so can answer
questions about sex and drugs, but not rock and roll. Have
previously done some research in electronic mail--way back in 1985 at
the Navy Laboratories. Former dissertation topic abandoned due to
lack of funds (travel), current topic seems to be looking at how the
culture of my professional organizations are changing due to
electronic conferencing. Reproductive status: 0. Marital status:
Available! When not puzzling over library and information studies
play tuba in a brass band and am also struggling to learn classical
equitation with a fairly stubborn horse who is terrified of all
cloven-hoofed animals.
Andriana Pateris, USA
pateris@umbc.bitnet
Tom Postmes, University of Amsterdam
sp_postmes@macmail.psy.uva.nl
PhD student in the Social Psychology department at the University of
Amsterdam. I'm part of a group working on social psychological
processes in CMC (with Russell Spears and Joop van der Pligt in
Amsterdam, and Martin Lea in Manchester). Currently we're studying
group polarisation and deindividuation (i.e. 'antinormative' behaviour)
in CMC and CSCW.
Diane Penkoff, University of Southern California, USA
PENKOFF@VM.USC.EDU
Third year Ph.D. student, Department of Communication Arts &
Sciences, University of Southern California. I'm interested in CMC
as viewed through Giddens' structurationist lens, with a particular
interest in the discourse as both forming and being formed by the
nature of the medium. Specifically, I'm interested in the use of
ASCII characters to create faces, etc., to add emotive texture to the
discourse. I'm also curious about the writing styles we see in CMC
and how they compare with other forms of writing; what is simple
reduction of characters (and, thus, error/connect time, etc.) and
what's an attempt at replicating a conversational style; what's used
to compensate for dramaturgical limitations of the medium.
Janet Perkins, University of Wyoming, USA
perky@corral.uwyo.edu
Eileen Prince, Northeastern University, USA
eprince@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu
Currently, I am the associate director of the English Language Center
at Northeastern University, Boston, U.S. I have been in ESL for more
than 25 years, since I was a graduate student in linguistics at
Columbia University. I have an MA in general linguistics from
Columbia (essay on, I blush to admit since my 2 years of Mandarin
have not allowed me to speak much at all even though my current
husband is from China, The Spoken Peking Mandarin Particle .de). I
have also twice done everything but a dissertation in linguistics,
the first time at Columbia with a specialty in psycholinguistics, the
second at Harvard with a specialty in discourse analysis. (I may in
fact eventually get the degree from Harvard with a dissertation on
English conversational historical present in narratives.) In case
you haven't guessed from the twice unfinished degrees, I am the
mother of four (girls aged 20, almost 19, 16 and 14 -- the youngest
unfortunately autistic and nonverbal at this point). I am also an
ESL textbook author. Finally, I very much enjoy using computers for
wordprocessing, data base management and video games (simple and
fairly nonaggressive: pacman, tetris, solitaire, and some
number-based games). If I had time I would learn to program and
write educational ESL software. (I can really only program in DBase,
and that's something different.
Sheizaf Rafaeli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
sheizafr@shum.cc.huji.ac.il
PhD, Stanford University, 1985. Currently Associate Professor and
Head, Information Systems Division in the School of Business
Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author of a few
software packages. Interested in computers as media: have published
on interactivity, computer administered dialogue, software economics
and theft, cable television, electronic bulletin boards, political
communication, and decision support systems. Have taught at Ohio
State University, Michigan State University, University of Michigan,
Stanford University. Have also been: a juvenile delinquent
street-gang instructor (which experience seems to prove useful here),
sailor, officer in the military, journalist, programmer. Owner of
reddest (and longest?) beard in ProjectH.
Bill Remington, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
inbillr@mtsu.edu
Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro Tennessee. I am
assistant professor of Computer Information Systems in the College of
Business. I teach Cobol, Database, and other Information Processing
subjects. My PhD is from the University of North Texas in Denton
Texas.
Bernard Robin
brr2t@curry.edschool.virginia.edu
Jean Roehrs, USA
jroehrs@unmcvm.bitnet
Alejandra Rojo, University of Toronto, Canada
A_Rojo@UTOROISE.BITNET
A PhD candidate in Education in the Measurement and Evaluation and
Computer Applications Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education (OISE), U of Toronto. Presently I'm working in my
thesis. I'm interested in the participation issue in online academic
forums. An important part of my study is based in Sheizaf's
interactivity concept. I will be studying lists and groups with
education-related content.
Roy Roper, USA
roy_roper@qms1.life.uiuc.edu
Lauri Ruberg, Virginia Tech, USA
lruberg@vtvm1.bitnet
I am currently working on my doctorate in instructional technologies at
Virginia Tech. I have completed my course work and preliminary exam
and am now beginning my dissertation research. My area of interest
involves looking at how computer mediated communication (CMC) can be
incorporated into higher education to improve the quality of the
educational experience. I plan to use primarily qualitative methods of
analysis to compare three different classes which incorporate different
aspects of CMC. These three case studies include: (1) a technical
writing class taught totally on-line; (2) a freshman composition class
which will introduce students to on-line collaborative discussion and
cooperation; and (3) a plant biology lab which will be using CMC to
manage increased communication and collaboration among students and
between student groups.
Prior to returning to graduate school in 1991, I worked with
non-profit organizations disseminating public information via
classroom programs, media blitzes, or by creating "re-usable"
information presentations such as slide-tape programs, brochures,
booklets, curriculum guides, videotapes, or combinations of all of
these. Gradually my professional experiences brought me in touch
with electronic dissemination of information. First through an
organization set up to distribute human service information to
individuals in need via interactive cable technology. Finally
through participation in the development of a public information
kiosk designed to distribute traditional Cooperative Extension
information to the general public via touch-screen interactive video
technology. My increasing exposure to electronic distribution of
information kindled an interest in learning more about the
communication aspects of digital technology. Upon the completion of
my graduate program I hope to continue doing working in this area
doing research and developing new applications for CMC. I often feel
that pursuing research in this area is like trying to keep a float in
a turbulent sea of information. This voyage I am taking seems to be
powered by change. So far I am determined to remain on board.
On a more personal level, I am married to George Ruberg and mother
of two boys: William, age 9, and John, age 3.
Lucia Ruedenberg, USA
ruednbrg@nyuacf
Vic Savicki, Western Oregon State College, USA
savickiv@ucs.orst.edu
Professor of Psychology at Western Oregon State College in Monmouth,
Oregon. He is interested in computer mediated communication
especially as it is and will be used in small work groups. His
interest in groupware focuses on the basics of group process as it is
played out via computer communication. Over the years he has taught
courses in clinical psychology and organizational psychology. He is
especially interested in how affective communication occurs via
mediated communication. Also of interest is the idea that access to
computer mediated communication in an organization flattens out the
organization's hierarchy and leads to a more participative climate.
Steve Schneider, USA
fsms@sunyit.edu
Robert Scott, Columbia University, New York, USA
rbscott@cutcv2.tc.columbia.edu
Robert Bruce Scott is a doctoral student in educational
administration at Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY. His
previous degrees were a B.A. in English, 1980, and an M.A. in
T.E.S.L., 1984, both completed at the University of Kansas, Lawrence,
KS. For most of the past decade he has been overseas, with teaching
assignments in South America and Japan.
Two of Mr. Scott's publications are included in the ERIC microfiche
collection: his masters research in the use of flowcharts and
conversational logic (1985), and a more recent working paper on
rhetorical modes for ESL (1992). He has done a number of
demonstrations, workshops, and papers, on topics ranging from
conversation games to HyperCard programming. His main research
interest related to educational administration is group dynamics,
while he maintains his long term activities in the field of discourse
applied to ESL.
Michael Shiloh, TRW Financial Systems, USA
michael@tfs.com
Originally from Jerusalem, Israel. Living in San Francisco Bay Area
for about 17 years now. 37, married, 2 wonderful step-daughters, just
recently decided to try making our own child (yow!).
Background mostly in electrical enginnering/computer science, no
experience in the social sciences other than what rubbed has off from
my father who is a medical anthropologist. Became very active on the
computer networks when a student at UC Berkeley, and have continued
being part of that "community". Became fascinated with the notion of
a community that is not bound by physical proximity, and am
especially interested in the advantages that this medium offers over
the traditional f2f interactions.
Am something of an activist in the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/S&M community
and the computer network has played a large role in this, as it
allows many of us to communicate quickly and efficiently, and most
importantly anonymously. Many of us started reading these newsgroups
and lists out of curiosity, and found that the participants weren't
sick individuals but loving, caring, and usually extremely
intelligent people. Many of us have subsequently "come out" as a way
to gain wider acceptance, but the anonymity of the computer networks
was an extremely vital stepping stone.
Am also an artist working in rusted metal, concrete, and broken
glass; I like making music (guitar and didgeridoo) but I don't think
I can call myself a musician yet. (Practice, practice.)
Work for a living at TRW Financial Systems, a provider of
image-based transaction processing systems for the financial and
other industries.
Myles Slatin, State University of New York Buffalo, USA
ENGMYLES@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
Professor of English at SUNY/Buffalo, where I've been just about 40
years; been an administrator (Dean, Director of Libraries, et al).
Published a little on Ezra Pound, been teaching and writing on 19th
Century Women Poets, both American and British, esp. Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. Been involved with computers as an amateur who
wants to see them used intensively and extensively in teaching
writing, in research, in distance teaching. Next semester one of our
graduate students will read with me in Computer Theory and Literary
Theory, which I know nothing about, as she says. We will both be
aided by David Sewell,of U. of Rochester, and my son, John Slatin, at
UTAustin, both of whom teach such courses at the graduate level; we
will use e-mail to find out where we go wrong or, by chance, right.
I'm interested in the study because of the phenomena I see on other
lists I've been on and am on.
Gilbert Smith, North Carolina State University, USA
n567126@ncsuadm.bitnet
Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at North Carolina State
University, Raleigh NC 27695-8106. Degrees in Spanish from Baylor
(B.A.), Tulane (M.A.), and Brown (Ph.D). My research specialization
is the 19th century Spanish novel, with particular interest in the
works of Benito Perez Galdos. I have an interest in the phenomenon
of e-mail instant communication, which I have developed and
cultivated primarily through my very active participation on WORDS-L
for about six months. My other interests include traditional
(progressive) jazz, collecting first printings of American and
British fiction (ca. 1940-the present), painting, and theater (as a
spectator and as an actor). I am a half-time administrator in the
university, and as scheduling officer of my large department, I have
developed computer programs to aid in the scheduling of classes,
using a combination of Advanced Basic and PCWrite because they work
best for what I am doing and they are the ones I learned first. I am
active in several professional organizations -- Modern Language
Association, NEMLA, SAMLA, International Association of Galdos
Scholars, and Asociacion Internacional de Hispanistas. I have six
children, a daughter who is a lawyer in Lincoln, NE; a son who is a
journalist in New York City; a son who is a musician in Raleigh; a
son who is a travelling free-lance archeologist; a teen-age son who
is a jazz saxophonist; and a teen-age daughter who is a ballerina.
My wife, Dana Bartelt, is a graphic artist and gallery curator, whose
exhibit, Contemporary Czechoslovak Posters, has been touring the
country for three years. Her latest exhibit, Art as Activist, for
the Smithsonian, has just begun touring and is opening in New York
City this month.
Jacek Smits, UC-Santa Barbara, USA
jacek@edstar.ucsb.edu
After finishing my doctoral at the State University Utrecht in the
Netherlands in Developmental Psychology (doctoral in the Netherlands
roughly translates to Masters in the United States), I entered the
PhD program in Educational Psychology at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. For my PhD I will be working on an
educational implementation of a BBS to be used in, mainly, high
schools. Besides functioning as a database, this BBS will also be
used for CMC between the different connected sites. My PhD research
will focus on the CMC part of it.
Ermel Stepp
m034050@marshall.bitnet
Jonathan Steuer, Stanford University, USA
jonathan@casa-next1.stanford.edu
I'm a 4th-year (pre-dissertating) graduate student in the Department
of Communication at Stanford University, where I have been studying
human-computer interaction from a social perspective and formal
features of media presentation systems. I have also become a bit of a
net-crawler. Last summer, I began a comparative study of online
environments, examining the structures of a wide variety of different
environments (email, lists, conferencing systems, big online
services, MUD's, IRC, etc.) and trying to draw some broad conclusions
about the ways these structures determined the ways people used the
systems. I compiled no hard empirical evidence, but am working on a
paper summarizing my general conclusions. I am interested is this
project as a means of collecting some hard data that might support
some of my conclusions. Since last October, I have also been hosting
a monthly series of "nerd parties" here in the San Francisco Bay Area
called "Internet Jam Sessions," in which I assemble a group of 10-30
people in a room with many computers on the Internet, and sending
everyone out exploring.
Fay Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia
fays@archsci.arch.su.edu.au
Administrator/research assistant/conference manager/PhD student in
the Key Centre of Design Computing, University of Sydney. I teach a
postgrad course in e-communications in design. Research interest is
in CMC in collaborative design. I will be using some of the data
collected by this project as part of my doctoral dissertation.
Undergrad and postgrad degrees in psychology and cognitive science.
Diploma in music (pianoforte performance). Publications in AI and
cognitive science. Interests: travel, Scottish country dancing
and photography.
Pat Sullivan, USA
nvo@expert.cc.purdue.edu
Macey Taylor, University of Arizona, USA
maceytay@ccit.arizona.edu
Course Director-ESL and teacher 2 courses for matriculated foreign
graduate students; sometimes TESL/Linguistics courses, also. Taught
'91 & '92 TESOL Summer Institutes in Barcelona and Bratislava (CALL
[Computer Assisted Language Learning] and Communicative
Methodology). Editor and former Chair TESOL CALL Interest Section;
Editor CALLing; frequent contributor on CALL to other periodicals;
co-author of book of CALL lessons plans and ideas. Frequent speaker,
workshop giver, in-service provider, etc. on CALL and general use of
microcomputers in education. Software developer and vendor.
Consultant CALL, EAP/ESP, and ELT in general. Current major
interests: multimedia, telecommunications, and concordancing.
Permanent interests: materials and curriculum development;
methodology.
Jim Thomas, Northern Illinois University, USA
tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu
Professor, sociology/criminal justice, Northern Illinois University.
Research includes both quantitative/qualitative approaches. Research
areas: Prison culture, computer culture, prisoner litigation. Most
recent work: DOING CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY (Sage, 1992). Teaches theory,
methods, corrections, law.
Philip Thompsen, University of Utah, USA
panthony@cc.utah.edu
Assistant professor of communication at William Jewell College in
Liberty, Missouri. Currently on sabbatical leave of absence at the
Univ. of Utah, where I am a doctoral candidate. My research
interests include "flaming" in computer-mediated communication, the
diffusion of computer communication technology, mediated
interpersonal interaction, and radio broadcasting. Have also been a
radio announcer, newscaster, program director and advisor to college
radio stations.
Lin Thompson
lint@deakin.oz.au
Philip Tsang, Charles Sturt University, Australia
ptsang@csu.edu.au
Greetings from Wagga Wagga, Australia. Wagga Wagga is six hours drive
from Sydney, 2 hours drive from Canberra and 5 hours drive from
Melbourne. We have excellent Internet connection on campus. With
AARNet (Australian Academic Research Network), we are just next door
to you all ProjectHers. EDUCATION: BSc CompSci (Washington Uni), BSc
Electrical Engineering (Washington Uni), MSc Applied Computing
(Central Missouri State Uni), Certifciate in Compiler construction
(Stanford/WICS), Certificate in Train the Trainer (Deakin Uni/ATW);
EXPERIENCE: ISDN consultant EXICOM Australia (90-91); Lecturer in
Data communications (90-present) Charles Sturt Uni; Visiting
assistant professor in telecommunications, Uni Colorado-Boulder (15
August 93 - 31 Jan 1994); CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST: Parallel
Processing Algorithms for Image Analysis (PhD), Distributed Parallel
Computing, Cryptography/System Security/Compression,
Telecommunications and Distance Learning/Teaching; CURRENT INTERNET
RELATED PROJECT: coordinating the Internet Signature Project (ISP);
THINGS THAT I WANT TO IMPROVE: writing/teaching skills;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: I would like to thank Fay Sudweeks for inviting
myself and others (ISP folks) to join ProjectH.
Alexander Voiskounsky, Russia
vae@mch.chem.msu.su
Valerie Wagoner
wagovs@morekypr.bitnet
Social psychology graduate student. Interesed in social cognition,
social influence and human factors.
Dadong Wan, University of Hawaii, USA
dxw@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu
I am a Ph.D student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Communication
and Information Sciences (CIS) at the University of Hawaii.
Currently, I am completing my dissertation in computer-supported
collaborative learning (CSCL). My research extends the
accesss-centered approach to CSCL to provide representation-based
support. My view of CMC is constructivistic; in particular, I am
interested in applying general principles of knowledge representation
to facilitate collaborative knowledge construction among people in
networked environments.
Wendy Warren, Edinboro University of PA, USA
warren@vax.edinboro.edu
I'm an instructor at Edinboro University of PA, teaching Technical
Writing and Business Writing and Freshman Composition. It's a
tenure-track position which I have held for three years now--tenure
review will be in two. By next year I hope my application for
promotion to assistant professor will have been granted. I have a
master's in Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University where I
studied with Janice Lauer, and am now halfway through my coursework
at Indiana University of PA for a doctorate in Rhetoric and
Linguistics. My special interests are computers and writing
(obviously), and specifically multimedia composition, although I
haven't much experience in using or creating in hypertext. Hope to
gain some, though, this year. I am also interested in public policy
writing/environmental writing in the domain of technical writing. I
have less experience with coding than I would like so I am hoping
this experience will strengthen that area of my research knowledge.
Robert Welford, USA
Gerry White, Purdue University
gerryw@vm.cc.purdue.edu
I am a 33 year old doctoral student at Purdue University in the
School of Education. I am currently undertaking a study in
computer-mediated distance education where I am analyzing the
characteristics of dominant participants in computer mediated
classroom communication. My major professor and a colleague are
teaching a course in educational restructuring via distance computing
on a wide area educational network serving the State of Indiana. I
am analyzing the transcripts from this course as a part of my
dissertation research.
I am also an administrator and academic advisor for the School of
Liberal Arts at Purdue University. My primary administrative
responsibilities include monitoring the registration process for
6,000 undergraduate Liberal Arts students, projecting course space
needs for these students, acting as ex officio head of the General
Studies department, and coordinating any and all technology based
activities for the counseling office of 45 full and part-time
counselors and advisors. My academic advising student load consists
primarily of students majoring in Psychology, Criminology and
History.
I have a B.A. from Purdue with a triple major in U.S. History,
Political Science and Social Studies Education. I have a M.S. in
Social Studies Education. My doctoral program emphasizes educational
computing with additional supporting work in instructional design. I
am married and have two children ages 2 and 7.
Jesse White, USA
jwhite@uafsysb
Sabina Wolfson, USA
sabina@xp.psych.nyu.edu
Marsha Woodbury, University of Illinois, USA
marsha-w@uiuc.edu
BA Stanford '68 in Communications, secondary teaching credential '69
SF State (when Hayakawa was president), 18 years in NZ farming, etc.,
MS in Journalism Univ. of Illinois 1991, doctoral candidate Univ of
Illinois in education, with particular interest in graphic design,
computers (everything--the nets, e-mail, instruction, etc. etc.),
writing, and what technology is doing to us.
Bob Woodward, Washington University
rsw@wubios.wustl.edu
An economist by training, dissertation on Puerto Rican industrial
incentives. Now Associate Professor, teaching health care finance to
future hospital adminstrators. President of Writing Assessment
Software, Inc., a company that sells TopGrade (tm). TopGrade creates
an environment designed to facilitate scoring and commenting on
essays submitted electronically. Indeed its features could be used
for certain scoring tasks... "Owner" of FINAN-HC, a LISTSERVer
group discussing health care finance issues.
Nancy Wyatt, Pennsylvania State University
njw@psuvm.bitnet
BA in English Literature, MA and PhD in Speech Communication.
Associate Professor, Department of Speech Communication. Teaching
experience: public speaking, group discussion, business
communication, women's studies, communication consulting. Research
experience: designed and implemented a year-long study of what
medical students learn in their rotation in community clinics, with
emphasis on communication skills; coordinated the first complete
audit of communication in a federal agency; supervised and
coordinated the interview portion of the study; conducted interviews
of farmers in Minnesota and agency personnel in Washington DC and St
Louis, Missouri; co-conducted preliminary interview study of
perceptions of the faculty, staff and graduate students at Penn State
on various issues.
Kathleen Yancey, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA
fen00kby@unccvm.bitnet
I am an Assistant Professor of English at University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, and Co-Director of our site of the National
Writing Project, an institute devoted to the improvement of writing
and its teaching. My major research interests are teacher
prepararion programs and assessment, particularly writing assessment
and portfolio assessment. Last summer, with my colleague Boyd
Davis, I team taught UNC Charlotte's first teacher institute on using
the computer to teach reading and writing, and we are hoping to
expand our offerings with an advanced institute on CMC, networking,
and electronic portfolios.
Bob Zenhausern,
drz@sjuvm.stjohns.edu
Olga Zweekhorst, Netherlands
olgazw@kub.nl