I still get a lot of people emailing to ask about submitting articles for Cybersociology, the webzine I edited from 1997 to late 1999. I’ve been thinking of reviving the project, maybe as some sort of group blog with a few editors, rather than just me, finding and selecting suitable content. What do you think? Would you read it? Might you contribute an article? Are you interested in being one of the group editors?
Here’s a list of the articles, site reviews and book reviews that have appeared in Cybersociology (http://www.cybersociology.com):
Issue One Cyber-Romance, Cybersex, and Cyber-Eroticism. Published Online 10 Oct. ’97. Contents: Feature articles — Researching Cybersex in Online Chat Rooms: the Ethnographic Approach (Robin Hamman); Erving Goffman, Dramaturgy, and On-Line Relationships(Nikki Sannicolas); Cyber-Charade (Cara); New To Cyber Liaisons (Sue). Site reviews — Sandy Stone, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. Book review — Sherry Turkle, “Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet” (Jennifer Jannuska)
Issue Two: Online (Virtual?) Communities Published Online 20 Nov. ’97. Contents: Feature articles — Introduction to Virtual Community Research and Issue Two of Cybersociology (Robin Hamman); Seniors and the Internet (Joyce Philbeck); IRC on AustNet – an example of a virtual community (Cyberrdewd); QUAKE-ING IN MY BOOTS:
Issue Three: Digital Third Worlds and Questions of Net Access Published Online 07 August, 1998 Contents: Feature articles — Introduction to Digital Third Worlds and Issue Three of Cybersociology (Robin Hamman – USA/UK); The Changing Face of Society (Kirsten Smith – South Africa); The New Eldorado, or a Ticket to the First World (Nellie Lejter – Venezuela) Site reviews — Olu Oguibe, Crash Media. Book reviews — Disconnected by Willian Wresch (Andy Oram – USA).
Issue Four: Open Topic Published Online 01 December, 1998 Contents: Feature articles — Cyberpunks: A Sociological Analysis With Special Interest In The Description Of Their Online Activities (Markus Wiemker – Germany). Net Ideologies: From Cyber-liberalism to Cyber-realism, (Francisco Millarch – Brazil/UK). Will the Technobabble Bubble Burst?, (Rachel Collinson – UK). What Is A Geek? (Mike Sugarbaker – USA). Interview with Sci-Fi Author Bruce Sterling (Zana Poliakov – Serbia). Ken Wilber and Cyberspace (Michel Bauwens – France). There Are No Last Words Online (Radhika Gajjala – USA). Trace Online Writing Community (Sue Thomas – UK). Bringing The Net To The Masses: Cybercafes In Latin America (Dr. Madanmohan Rao – India). Report: Manchester’s Temporary Media Lab -> Revolting (Micz Flor – Germany/UK) Notes from the Exploding Media Symposium (Robin Hamman – USA/UK) Net Art — 24 Hour Jpeg Project (Brad Brace – USA). Site reviews — Portal on Global Digitalization / The Hoechst Triangle Forum (M. Alan Kazlev – Australia). Book reviews — Knowledge Societies (Ravi Srinivas- India).
Issue Five: Grassroots Political Activism Online (co-edited with Micz Flor from Crash Media) Published Online 01 April, 1999. Contents: Feature articles — The High Tech Gift Economy (Richard Barbrook – London), Labour@Cyberspace: Problems in Creating a Global Solidarity Culture (Peter Waterman – Netherlands), Internet Against Censorship (Drazen Pantic – Belgrade), Cyberpower and the Meaning of Online Activism (Tim Jordan – London), A Few Points About Online Activism (Jon Lebkowsky – USA), Punk Science (Rachel Armstrong – London), Cyborg Film-Making (Rachel Armstrong – London), The Borg: A Critique (Dave Gordan), ¿Roam-Antics on the Cyber-Horizon or Home-Wrecking for a New Millennium? (Judy Hempel – USA), Admirable Utopian World (Eduardo Duarte – Brazil), LESSONS LEARNED: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF ON-LINE COMMUNITY NETWORKS (George Hunka – USA), Study of Men and Women’s Gender Display in Text-based Communication (Sema Nicole Seyedi – USA) Field Reports — INDONESIA: The Net as a Weapon (Tedjabayu – Indonesia), Introducing Radio Free Monterey (Barbara Steinberg – USA), Online Community Builders Toolkit for Activists (Robin Hamman – England), The Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Introducing the Panel Discussion of the Counter-Strategies Corporations Employ Against Campaigns (Eveline Lubbers), Computer Aid International (UK). Book reviews — Cyber-Democracy: Technology, Cities and civic networks; Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life; Technology of the Orgasm: Hysteria, the Vibrator and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction; Communities in Cyberspace; Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology, and Post-Human Pragmatism; Station Rose First Decade: Ten Years of Native Multimedia Art.
Issue Six: Research Methodology Online (Published Online: 06 Aug. 1999) Contents: Feature articles — The Digital Ethnographer (Bruce Mason & Bella Dicks, Cardiff University); Behaviour in Public? : Ethics in Online Ethnography (Allison Cavanagh, University of Manchester); Virtual Corporeality: Adolescent Girls and Their Bodies in Cyberspace (Kerrie Smyres, Arizona State University); Among the Internauts: Notes from the cyberfield (Nils Zurawski); Cyborg Diaspora and Virtual Imagined Community: Studying SAWNET (Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University); Cyberspace as Everyday Life (Stephen Webb, University of North London) ; Interview with Richard Stallman, Founder of the Free Software Foundation (Geert Lovink); BIG BROTHER IS ON-LINE: Public and Private Security in the Internet (Javier Bernal, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside, England.); The Web of Life in the Life of the Web: The Philippine Internet Experience (Benjamin M.Wage, Jr.) ; Book reviews — Doing Internet Research; Researching Online for Dummies.
Issue Seven: Religion Online and Techo-Spiritualism Guest Co-Edited by Michel Bauwens. 01 Sept 1999. The Spirtual Cyborg, by Erik Davis, a San Franciso-based writer, culture critic, and independent scholar who recently published “TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information” (Harmony Books, 1998). / Is Cyberspace a Spiritual Space?, by Margaret Wertheim, is a regular contributor to numerous magazines and is the author of “The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet” and “Pythagoras Trousers” / Dialogue on the Cyber-Sacred and the Relationship Between Technological and Spiritual Development, by Michel Bauwens and Father Vincent Rossi. / Techno-Spiritual Quotes, Collected by Jeremy S. Gluck, the founder of Spiritech UK, an association that strongly believes not only the function of technology as a mirror of human consciousness but in the eventual unfolding of an original machine consciousness that will be a partner to humankind. / Cyberspace: the New Frontier for Religion, by Lin Collette, Brown University, USA. / Big Brother is Online, by Javier Bernal, University of Lincolnshire & Humberside (UK). / Is India on the Brink of a Digital Abyss?, by Venkatesh Hariharan, Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. / Cyborg Selves: examining identity and meaning in a chat room, by Marcus Leaning, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. BOOK REVIEWS: Holding On to Reality:The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (1999) By Albert Borgmann Review by: David Rieder, Univ. of Texas: Arlington / How We Became Posthuman : Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999) By Katherine Hayles Review by Nathalie Muller / Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town (1998) By Stacy Horn Review by Claire Shearman
I’ve started moving content for Cybersociology over to typepad. This is just an experiment for the time being. You can see the results thus far at http://cybersoc.blogs.com/cybersociology