CyberPsychology
“This page has links to a number of papers by Hugh Miller and Jill Arnold, of the Department of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University, about identity and Web pages.
We’ve also included links to a number of other sites that we’ve found useful and interesting.
We’re keen to make contact with other people who are interested in this area, so feel free to email Hugh or Jill, especially if you’re thinking of linking to this page or to any of our papers: we’d probably like to see your site.
Jill has a questionnaire (and an opportunity to contact her for an interview) about identity and personal home pages.”
This is a site worth having as it identifies something very vital – web pages and identity. Virtual life does not require the paraphernalia of The Matrix, just the Net as we know it.
Later: Friday, 6 June, 2008
The link is now behind a password, but here are some related ones:
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Usenet post on psychodrama from 1996
I recall this discussion and found it again. Here is a nice post
from Dimitra Barnard-Martinez (earthsea@accent.net) – It is
amazing what is buried in the 20 years of usenet.
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General Directories and Indexes of Sites.
And I am there with a Psybernet link – among some interesting resources. Check this out for psyber stuff.
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Matthew Broersma doing an Eric Raymond interview.
Centralization doesn’t scale
“If you want to go to a really fundamental analysis, what we’re perpetually rediscovering on a scale of complexity is that centralization doesn’t work. Centralization doesn’t scale, and when you push any human endeavor to a certain threshold of complexity you rediscover that.”
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Use this Weblog more effectively, spy on it.
See link on the left.
Validating Web pages
Update
Having a busy time in the Psybernet website. Been updating the pages. I am happier with all those that have the
sign on them. They validate, are up-to-date and have been spell-checked. If there are glaring errors, or even minor ones on those pages – let me know.
Dreamevent
DreamEvents in Psyberspace
Here is the essay i wrote on DreamEvents using the HipBone game.
Ontology of Cyberspace
koepsell (link dead Tuesday, February 22, 2011 but rescued from the archives now here.). (and in Google DriveĀ
David R. Koepsell, The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property. Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 2000.
Reviewed by Arthur L. Morin
Law is a system of categorization. At the ideal level, one purpose of this system is to help the social system achieve justice. Though not stated so straightforwardly, this is David R. Koepsell’s position in his book The Ontology of Cyberspace: Philosophy, Law, and the Future of Intellectual Property.1 There is, of course, a dynamic interrelation between the legal system of categorization and the socio-cultural system(s) of categorization of which it is a part. Koepsell realizes this, or else he would not have been able to detect the disjunction between what software is and how it has been treated in the legal system. But what he does not seem to fully appreciate is that ontology does not necessarily beget justice. This is the First Problem — the distinction between ontology (what something is) and justice — and I will return to it later.
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Cyberpsychology: Principles of Creating Virtual Presence by Leon James in Hawaii
Cyberpsychology:
Principles of Creating Virtual Presence
Dr. Leon James
Professor of Psychology
University of Hawaii
(c)1994
This is a link to the site of the teacher – not the student as in an earlier link. Full of Psyberspacy stuff.