Introductions
Member of the non-credentialed, semi-pro, lapsed hippie control
group here in USA.
I'm a net.oldtimer -- been around since 1981; can grep but prefer
not to
I am involved in some political offices and am very interested
in online ethics.
I am new in this list and I have
no idea what will going on here.
So my name ist Thomas and I am 30 years old, no sorry now I
am 31 :).I spend a lot of my time reading and writing emails thinking about
social psychology.
I a 32 yr old research chemist in Walnut Creek, CA (San Francisco
area). I am a self proclaimed armchair philosopher
I have six lists at the
moment.
I organized an on-line United States Senate debate and a state
of Minnesota Gubernatorial debate that we forwarded into a public discussion
forum with approximately 700 citizen-participants. I did survey research
on the reactions of the citizen-participants to the list, and got real positive
feedback. I'm writing the results of the work up for my
Ph.D. in political theory at the U of Cambridge
- UK. The title will be, "American Democracy and Computer
Mediated Communication - A Case Study in Minnesota" As you can imagine
the focus is on how the listserv technology can became a new part of our
democratic political machinery. The unique nature of social interaction on
the listserv is thus a key part of the study. Thus, this list was irresistable.
I would appreciate any references about works on listservs and social interaction
that have already been published.
For the last 14 years and until this month I've been a sysop/forum
leader on national networks such as CompuServe, Delphi, Genie, and AOL. I
ran the Computer Consultants Forum on CompuServe, the Art of Programming
Forum/Round Table on Genie, and most lately the Mac Developers Forum on AOL
since 1989. For the past few years I've also run a number of interet lists
most notably the OpenDoc lists at CI Labs.
I'm an independent consultant on use context for new information
technologies of many kinds, mainly in the workplace. My clients are F/500
companies. My graduate program at UC Berkeley was in Linguistic Anthropology
and I specialized in social interaction (PhD 1979). I am basically an
ethnomethodologist/phenomenologist of the
Heideggerian persuasion, but am interested
in all forms of knowledge (as befits that persuasion).
We're still feeling our way around and getting to know each
other.
Musician and singer, potterand mask maker, painter, former actress and occasional
director, former mother, now grandmother, collector of American quilts and
early primitive furniture, cook, backpacker, x-c skier, ice skater, swimmer,
news junkie, political activist, feeder of birds (but I don't watch them
eat :-), animal lover, and in 1960 a Playboy Bunny. What a long strange road
it's been...
Mother, mystic, horseback rider, poker/bridge/scrabble player,
former actress (non-pro), late-night talker, traveller, Loves springtime,
Cape Cod, animals, good jokes, flowers, Florence, Communion. Wannabe poet,
singer, book-writer (The Great American Treatise!), gardner (never tried
- frown), painter.
I am a 48 year old woman, married. My husband is now retired.
We like long walks on the beach and gourmet cooking.
Tall.
I am 48 years old and have just completed my 30th year with
General Motors and the United Auto Workers.
Over the past decade I have been steeped in psychoanalytic training
and thinking - beginning with an extended analysis in 1985; continuing into
and through a doctoral program in psychology which was psychoanalytically
oriented; throughout the latter part of my formal training and into the job
market (such as it is) with hands on work as a
psychotherapist.. . .I think and breathe "the
stuff."
I find myself wanting to create a crib sheet to identify each
of you and begin to piece together information that allows me to see you
in a fuller context.
I'm here because I am professionally and personally interested
in group dynamics, the facilitation and uses
of selfawareness -- and, if I'm honest, a particular sort of contact with
other people, probably having something to do with my ability to be myself
more fully than is often possible in ftf life.
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