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IPCT: Interpersonal Computing and Technology: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century

Interpersonal Computing and Technology: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century - ISSN: 1064-4326  

AECT-Association for Educational Communication and Technology

July 1997 - Volume 5, Number 1-2, pp. 1-6



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2. Table of Contents and Abstracts
3. Editorial Board
4. Copyright Statement

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2. Contents

FRAGMENTED BY TECHNOLOGIES: A COMMUNITY IN CYBERSPACE

Mike Davis
University of Manchester, UK

ABSTRACT

The emergence of the internet as a potential medium of communication raises a number of issues, not least among them, whether the sense of community that may arise in face-to-face (F2F) interaction will be possible to replicate in virtual space. In other words, will computer mediated communication (CMC) allow people, who may be distant in time and space, context and culture from one another, to manifest some or all of the characteristics of groups in physical and temporal contact.

This article chronicles the of a listserv list set up between groups in the United States and the United Kingdom and notions of community building are explored in the history of this group

Pages: 7-18


COGNITIVE ISSUES IN THE DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT OF INTERACTIVE HYPERMEDIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR AUTHORING WWW SITES

Samuel Ebersole, MA
University of Southern Colorado

ABSTRACT:

Media cognition, the study of the mental processes engaged by interaction with the media, is a topic of great interest to psychologists,sociologists, educators, communication theorists, and media practitioners. Much research has been conducted in the area of perception, sensory stimulation, memory and recall, and media effects.

This paper will attempt to define interactive media and will consider the design of interactive hypermedia from the perspective of the cognitive processes engaged by the authors and users of the system's architecture and content. Special emphasis will be given to the World-Wide Web (WWW) as an example of interactive hypermedia and examples will be presented with references to Netscape Navigator, a popular WWW browser.

Pages: 19-36


UNIVERSAL SERVICE FOR SCHOOLS: INSIGHTS INTO THE JOINT BOARD'S RECOMMENDED DECISION

Patricia Figliola Lewis
University of Florida

ABSTRACT:

President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act ("the Act") in February 1996, fundamentally changing the telecommunications industry. One of the Act's most important provisions codified and expanded the ad hoc national universal service policy developed and administered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Following the signing of the Act, the FCC initiated a rulemaking proceeding and established a Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service ("Joint Board") to consider comments from the public. That Joint Board released its Recommended Decision on this matter in November 1996. Following a comment period on the recommendations, the FCC will release its final rules in May 1997. This paper provides a summary
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as it relates to universal service for schools. It then outlines the FCC's rulemaking proceeding on that issue, summarizing and explaining key points of the comments in the proceeding and the Joint Board's Recommended Decision. The paper next identifies the points of agreement and disagreement within the Recommended Decision and concludes with an analysis of those points.

Pages: 37-62

A BOOK REVIEW OF HENRY J. PERKINSON'S NO SAFETY IN NUMBERS: HOW
THE COMPUTER QUANTIFIED EVERYTHING AND MADE PEOPLE RISK-AVERSIVE

by Paul J. Lippert

Pages: 63-65


EDITORIAL BOARD

 PUBLISHER   AECT - Association for Educational Communication and Technology
 EDITOR Susan B. Barnes Department of Communication & Media Studies Fordham University
EDITORIAL ADVISORS Zane L. Berge Director, Training Systems, ISD Graduate Program UMBC
  Gerald M. Santoro  Center for Academic Computing,
The Pennsylvania State University 
 MANAGING EDITOR Mauri P. Collins Research Associate, Educational Systems Programming, Northern Arizona University

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Manuel Bermudez  University of Florida Computer & Information Sciences
Thomas Berner  The Pennsylvania State University, Journalism & American Studies
Morton Cotlar  University of Hawaii, Professor Emeritus, Management
Paulo A. Dasilva Military Institute of Engineering, San Paulo, Brazil 
William Eadie  Speech Communication Association, Associate Director 
LaDonna C. Garrett  Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York Fashion Buying & Merchandising Dept.
Stephanie B. Gibson University of Baltimore, Communications Design
Theodore S. Hopf  Washington State University,Communication
Alice Horning  Oakland University, English and Rhetoric 
Vladimir Klonowski Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering,Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Donald Kraft  Louisiana State University, Computer Science 
Scott Kuehn  Clarion University of Pennsylvania,Communication 
Paul J. Lippert East Stroudsburg State University, Pennsylvania, Communications 
Edward Mabry  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Communication
Rory McGreal  Executive Director, TeleEducation New Brunswick, Canada  
David Schroeder Valparaiso University, Business Administration 
David Sims  University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, Veterinary Medicine 
Wendy Snetsinger  The Pennsylvania State University, Instructional Systems
Lance Strate Fordham University, Communication and Media Studies 
Pekka Vakkilainen  Helsinki, Finland, Independent Educational Consultant 
Amy Zelmer  Central Queensland University, Australia, Health Science 


Copyright Statement

Interpersonal Computing and Technology: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century

© 1997 The Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Copyright of individual articles in this publication is retained by the individual authors. Copyright of the compilation as a whole is held by AECT. It is asked that any republication of an IPCT-J article state that the article was first published in IPCT-J.

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