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Thesis: Virtual Communities
Aaron 'Vern' Hamilton (vern@is.dal.ca)
16 Jul 1996 14:27:17 GMT
Hello. I'm an anthropology student entering into my fourth year of
undergraduate study at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada. Anyways, I have this incredible urge to research and study some
aspect of the internet as it pertains to the development of virtual
commnities (i.e. IRC, MUDs, MOOs, newsgroups). I have already scratched
the surface with an essay I wrote last year centered around a channel on
IRC's EFnet. (View this essay at: http://is.dal.ca/~vern) However, I
really don't even know where to begin with my thesis. Societies all over
the world are being increasingly inundated with internet culture and this
is an area I would like to study in future years (no doubt this area of
study will be expanding in years to come).
Here's what I'm trying to say to you people: HELP!!!
I need some guidance! Some articles! Papers! Where should I be heading
with this thesis! Bear in mind, this is only an undergraduate thesis, but
I want to get it right :)
Thankfully and hopefully and running-out-of-free-summer-hours,
Aaron Hamilton, almost-B.A. (Social Anthropology)
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