This anthology brings together studies on computer-mediated electronic space and social interaction and thus expands the available research on cyberspace and its social, cultural and psychological impact. Section 1 addresses broad issues and theoretical positions relevant to this new area of study, provides a theoretical and philosophical basis for the more specific analyses of cyberspace, and links those analyses to larger issues in the field of communication. Section 2 covers the functions of cyberspace, especially the ways in which cyberspace is used as a functional alternative to a place or set of places. Section 3 covers the form that cyperspace takes in comparison to the forms of physical space and other types of mediated space such as writing, print, and film. Finally, section 4 covers the forms of communication and characteristic of cyberspace, the emergence of a new cyberculture, and the ways in which it alters more traditional meanings of the self or subject, sexuality, and community.

Communication And Cyberspace-Social Interaction In An Electr (Communication and Public Space Series)

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Social Creativity, Vol. 2

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

The author employs psychoanalytic self psychology to analyze the creative process, emphasizing the self-world relationship and its transformative possibilities. This analysis is applied to the work of modern dance choreography, with special attention to the life and work of Paul Taylor. Drawing on this analysis, the implications of her theory of the creative process for the enrichment of the individual in his or her daily aesthetic, are examined.

The Dancing Self: Creativity, Modern Dance, Self Psychology and Transformative Education (Perspectives On Creativity Series)

Carol M. Press

An Ong Reader: Challanges for Further Inquiry (Hampton Press Communication Series Media Ecology)

This collection puts together the writings of Walter Ong, a scholar who has offered his own observations about voice, orality, speech, literacy, communication and culture. For those new to Ong, the range and accessibility will serve as a suberb introduction to Ong's body of work. Those already familiar with Ong's major publications will find much in this text to supplement and enrich their understanding and direct their future reading.

Politics & Social Sciences

Walter J. Ong

Thomas J. Farrell

Social Sciences

Angels Fear is the final sustained thinking of the great Gregory Bateson, written in collaboration with his anthropologist daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Here we have set out before us Bateson's natural history of the relationship between ideas. This book incorporates writing by both father and daughter, including essays written by Gregory in the last years before his death. There are also conversations-Metalogues-written since then by Mary Catherine to convey the way the two might have worked together to forge the essays into a single work. Angels Fear is a unique demonstration of thinking in progress, playful and wide-ranging, an attempt by the Batesons to find a view of the mind and the universe that is neigher mechanistic nor supernatural

Angels Fear: Towards An Epistemology Of The Sacred (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Scienc)

Gregory Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson

Religion & Spirituality

This book addresses the question of how health care teams function on a daily basis through an innovative ethnography of communication in an interdisciplinary geriatric team. To illustrate the complexity of teamwork, backstage communication processes among team members are richly described, their effects on frontstage communication with patients delineated,m and a model of embedded teamwork developed. The presentation enables readers to explore the relationships among epistemology, methodology, and writing practices in health care.

Communicating In The Clinic: Negotiating Frontstage and Backstage Teamwork (Hampton Press Communication Series: Health Communication)

Reference

Laura L. Ellingson

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Family members and cancer patients routinely talk about and through cancer on the telphone. Yet little is known about the social organization of these conversations and how cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis impact everyday living. The culmination of a decade of research, this volume offers close examination of the first natural history of one family's 13 month journey through a wife/mother/sister's terminal cancer. From diagnosis through death of a loved one, analysis of these 61 family phone recordings and transcriptions offers primal insights about the fundamental importance of communication. Family members continually rely on one another when navigating through complex social, emotional, technical, and biomedical concerns associated with cancer: Updating and assessing emerging news, being stoic, claiming and defending knowledge, reporting and responding to ongoing troubles, making airline reservations, adjusting to stable yet ambiguous health circumstances, displaying frustration, commiserating, maintaining a state of readiness, evaulating doctors and medical care, telling and retelling stories, being humorous and playful, and constructing hope as an alternative to despair. These interactions reveal no small measures of personal challenges, emotional turmoil, humorous exchanges, endearing actions, and resolute efforts to remain hopeful in the progressive face of bad cancer news. Moments such as these are extraordinary and mundane, foreign yet strikingly familiar to all who have encountered them when matters of illness, disease, life, and death move to the forefront and require our attention. Readers will not only gain enhanced understandings of ordinary human interactions, but a deep appreciation for managing the trials, tribulations, hopes and triumphs of cancer - and all human illness journeys shaped by communication in everyday life.

A Natural History of Family Cancer: Interactional Resources for Managing Illness (Health Communication) (Hampton Press Communication Series)

Wayne A. Beach

Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition)

This is a book about how people use advanced information technologies to write for community change. The author argues that the work of citizenship is knowledge work - on the same order as that expected of workers in business and industry. The importance of this book is in the way is understands writing and technology, and the implications of these understandings for how we need to teach and learn with students.

Jeffrey T. Grabill

Performing Feminism and Administration in Rhetoric and Composition Studies

This text posits definitions, tactics, and consequences of feminist administration. Inspired by tensions that arise between feminist beliefs and administrative imperatives, contributors write from their locations as WPAs, Graduate WPAs. Writing Center Directiors, WAC Directions, Chairs, and Journal Editors, and also from ther locations as graduate students, adjunct faculty, assistant professors, associate professors and full professors. From these differing locations, contributors identity issues of concern for feminist adminstrators, share stories of their own successes and failures, theorize these experiences in light of feminist thought and practice, and offer pragmatic recommendations to readers.

Krista Ratcliffe

Rebecca Rickly

Women's Studies

This volume focuses on the praxis of alternative media, including radio, video, film and Internet iniatives in South and North America, southern Africa, India, Australia and Europe. Chapter authors consider the relationship between these media and the people they serve, reevaluate established theoretial frameworks, and present new ones for understanding alternative and citizens' media in light of contemporary local and global realities.

Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere

Laura Stein

Clemencia Rodriguez

Dorothy Kidd

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