[Isait] reminder: CDDC speaker series: Steve Jones 3:30TH, 334 Williams

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> please announce/distribute to interested faculty/grad/undergrad
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> 3:30pm Thursday, 21 February 2002
> in Williams 334 at Virginia Tech
> The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Speaker Series
> Presents
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> Everything I Know About the Internet I Learned from PLATO
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> In this presentation, Professor Jones tells how he came to the 
> computing and Internet as an object of study through timesharing and 
> the PLATO system.  He then discusses the nature of online communities, 
> which have been at the core of his recent research.  He then concludes 
> moves into his work with the Pew Internet and American Life project.
>
> About the Author
> Steve Jones has been Internetworking since 1979 when he was using and 
> co-authoring educational materials on the PLATO system at the 
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in 
> Communication from the Institute for Communications Research there in 
> 1987, and is author of five books, including Doing Internet Research, 
> CyberSociety and Virtual Culture. A social historian of communication 
> technology, his books have earned him critical acclaim and interviews 
> for stories in Time, the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, 
> Newsweek and several other newspapers and magazines. He has also been 
> interviewed on radio and TV, and has been a guest on NPR's "Talk of the 
> Nation" and "Sounds Like Science."
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> Jones, co-founder of the association(of).internet.researchers, has made 
> numerous presentations to scholarly and business groups about the 
> Internet and social change and about the Internet's social and 
> commercial uses, and was selected to participate in the U.S. Department 
> of Commerce's efforts to review proposals for funding parts of the 
> "information highway." He is co-editor of New Media & Society, an 
> international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture 
> and edits New Media Cultures, a series of books on culture and 
> technology for Sage Publications.
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jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
on the ibook
www.cddc.vt.edu
www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy
www.dromocracy.com
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