co20wta@sdcc3.UUCP (Bruce Jones) (04/22/86)
ACCESS@UCSD is a group of graduate and undergraduate
students and faculty interested in computer-based confer-
ences and communication. We are supported by the Department
of Communication and by the Academic Computer Center at the
University of California, San Diego.
We are beginning a conference on the uses of computers
and how they are applied and understood in the communicative
process. In particular we are interested in how computers
work to ameloriate and/or exacerbate cross-cultural differ-
ences created in the communication process.
We want to hear your comments about how you make use of
the special properties of computer communication in cross-
cultural situations. Some of the possible areas of conver-
staion could be:
1. Politics of technology and how computers are involved.
2. Paranioa of technology.
3. Images of Americans in your culture.
4. Language difficulties and their amelioration.
5. Interpretations and translations of popular culture between
cultures.
Please respond if you are interested in participating.
Although UCSD is is on the quarter system we will be con-
tinuing this project through the Summer months and on into
the next year. This conference will take place primarilly
on the EIES network but will be ported around to various
other interested individuals and groups via The Source BBS,
CRTNET (the Communication Research and Technology Network)
BITNET and USENET via UUCP. Our objectives are twofold.
First we are interested in the issues themselves. The cur-
riculum here looks at communication from three perspectives:
communication and the individual, communication and the
transmission of culture and communication in the social pro-
cess. We hope that this discussion will expand our under-
standing of those three concentrations. Additionally, or
secondly, we hope to use the conference as a base for exa-
mining how electronic conferencing begins, grows and evolves
and how it can be reconstructed in the future so as to meet
the needs of the interactants.
Please direct your replies to:
TELECOM@sdcsvax.APRA
Thank you,
Bruce Jones