Focuses on the dynamics of interracial electronic communication. Examines the misunderstandings that arose in this interracial discussion, situating the causes and consequences of the students' discourse within both the local context of the electronic forum and within wider cultural patterns. Suggests strategies for facilitating more productive…

Describes Remote and Adaptive Educational Environment (RAPSODY-EX), a learning support environment for collaborative distance learning. Discusses components of collaborative learning and the computer infrastructure supporting access to information for leaner decision making. (Contains 23 references.) (SK)

Communities of practice (COPs) are effective environments for improving physicians' learning and practice. Continuing education providers can meet the learning needs of multidisciplinary COPs with the assistance of information/communications technologies that enhance physicians' information-seeking behavior. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

Discusses the movement of the World Wide Web from the first generation to the second, called the Semantic Web. Provides an overview of ontology, a philosophical theory about the nature of existence being applied to artificial intelligence that will have a crucial role in enabling content-based access, interoperability, and communication across the…

Discussion of Web-based distance education focuses on communication issues. Highlights include Internet communications; components of a Web site, including site architecture, user interface, information delivery method, and mode of feedback; elements of Web design, including conceptual design, sensory design, and reactive design; and a Web…

This paper presents the theoretical background for using computer-mediated communication to link children and scientists in a multiple electronic zone of proximal development. It is postulated that students will be able to perform at higher cognitive levels as a result of this increased interment contact with many adults. (LZ)

Offers an overview of various online writing labs across the United States, showing how many writing centers are now making use of e-mail, MOOs (Multi-User Object Oriented environments), Gopher, and the World Wide Web to provide writing assistance to writers around the globe. Provides a list of e-mail addresses, gopher sites, and Web pages. (SR)

Asks collaborators to be sensitive to the role that physical space plays in creative human endeavors, and to consider the impact on work accomplished in merged electronic and physical work environments. Considers how to build the collaborative university to preserve the pleasures of physical space and to leverage the efficiencies of…

Presents a postmodern discussion of the playful recreation of Chinese New Year "cards" by Chinese students using the Internet. Signifies the increasingly popular practice of incorporating festive symbols from other cultures into electronic greetings. Notes that users must often install Chinese-language software before these encoded texts…

Discusses the use of computer-based telecommunications through the Internet and commercial online services to bring immediacy and individualization to the school curriculum. Topics include integrating telecommunications into the curriculum, basic Internet tools, e-mail, the World Wide Web, and resources on the Internet for curriculum planning.…

Reviews research trends over the history of computer-mediated communication media with observations suggested so as to provide integrative principles with which to apply media to different circumstances. Comments on newer theories that explain normative use of "interpersonal" uses of the media. Infers strategies for the intentional…

Discusses an experiment to find the effects of "powerful" and "powerless" language on small computer-mediated groups. Explains that subjects were asked to communicate via computer in a decision-making context. Describes the three conditions. Finds that language style has significant impact on impression formation in computer…

Discusses some techniques and methodologies used in efforts to integrate computers and communication technology into existing curricula. Discusses teacher-student interaction, student-student interaction, electronic guest lecturers, and electronic forums and panels. (SR)

Examines online interactions between men and women on four electronic bulletin boards. Finds ways in which men's and women's online communication behaviors are similar to and different from the gender differences found in face-to-face communication. (SR)

Provides pieces of an interaction sequence enacted on an academic hotline, and a fairly casual analytic pass at them, as framing for some issues that deserve attention in the language and social interaction field. (Author/VWL)