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Presentations by:

• John N Grunwell - Visionary Plants List
  
• Dr. Jenny Thompson - War Reenactors Online
  
• Asim Ali - Buffnography: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fans
  
• Vincent Stephens - The Web of Mariah Carrey
  

Discussants:

• Dr. John Caughey - Chair, Department of American Studies
  
• Dr. R. Gordon Kelly - Author of Mystery Fiction and Modern Life, Department of American Studies
  

Resources:

• Annotated MP3 Bibliography
  

Please feel free to come and share your ideas about what you would like to see CWG achieve this semester.

We'll be looking at the texts listed below. (We suggest that you read the two nonfiction articles but just sample the fiction pieces to get a sense of how they're constructed.)

Nonfiction:

E-Publishing and Hypertext Publishing by Doug Brent

Shadow of an Informand-hypertextual Hypertext Theory by Stuart Moulthrop

Victory Garden by Stuart Moulthrop.

Conceived by Oliver Hockenhull

In conjuction with the Center for Teaching Excellence, the Department of American Studies, and Graduate Student Government, the Cyberculture Working Group presents a roundtable discussion devoted to the growing field of teaching with technology. Panelists include:

Debra DeRuyver, American Studies
"Sublime Socratic Spaces: The Pleasures and Terrors of the Virtual Classroom"

Bryan Herek, English
"How Would You Like that Donne? Turning Your Research Leftovers into a Tasty Web Treat"

Jeff Hornstein, History
"Networking Your Way into the Profession, or the Fine Art of Cybernetic Self-Promotion"

Kelly Quinn, American & Afro-American Studies
"Enlisting Technology: Using Listservs to Augment Discussions in Large Lecture Classes"

The Cyberculture Reading Group presents a discussion focusing on how concepts of "real life" physical space -- i.e., boundaries -- are maintained or changed in the "virtual reality" of cyberspace. We'll focus on two websites: City of Bits website and Virtual Places: Imagined Boundaries and Hyperreality in Southeastern Europe.

Optional Reading: We will probably touch on several ideas usually associated with cultural landscape study, so if you aren't familiar with this you may want to take a look at Jeremy Korr's article, "A Proposed Model for Cultural Landscape Study," Material Culture (Fall 1997).

Based on the success of the Cyberculture Working Group's March 8 meeting, in which Gisele Mills of TechnoMama spoke about using the Internet for feminist political activity, the Cyberculture Reading Group will examine several web sites as feminist texts. Specifically, we will consider:

Sweet Honey in the Rock; Virtual Sisterhood; and Women's Studies/Women's Issues Research.

In cooperation with the Academy of Leadership/Community Action School, the Cyberculture Working Group is proud to sponsor a talk and discussion about women's initiatives using Information Technology for organizing and feminist networking. Featured speakers include:

Gisele Mills,
Internet Activist and Co-founder of TechnoMama, Inc.

Lisa King,
Guest Speaker from D.C. WebWomen

Organized by the Cyberculture Reading Group, this reading session will cover two essays, both downloadable from the Web: Julian Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace" and Lisa Nakamura's "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet."

In conjuction with the Mini-Center for Teaching Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Society, the Cyberculture Working Group presents a hands-on session designed for faculty and graduate students who are using, or about to use, or simply interested in the ways of using the Internet in teaching. The session will include an introduction to MOOs as well as a presentation on MOOs as pedagogical tools. Featuring:

Susan Garfinkel, Georgetown University

Sandor Vegh, University of Maryland

Presented in conjuction with the Mini-Center for Teaching Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Society

Presented in conjuction with the Mini-Center for Teaching Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Society

Reading: Sherry Turkle, "Who Am We?" and (select one) Lisa Nakamura, "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" or Guillermo Gomez-Pena, " The Virtual Barrio @ the Other Frontier (or The Chicano Interneta)."

For additional reading, see: Brave New Self: Autobiographies in Cyberspace; persona: A Journey Through Virtual Identity; and Virtual Self.