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   ###     ###   ##   ###   ##  #   ###   #   Interpersonal Computing and
   ###     ###   ##   ###   ##      ###               Technology:
   ###     ###   ##   ###           ###        An Electronic Journal for
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   ###     ###        ###   ##      ###             ISSN: 1064-4326
   ###     ###        ###   ##      ###               April 1996
 #######   ###        ########      ###     Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 1-6
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               Published by the Department of Education
               University of Maryland Baltimore County
            Additional support provided by Georgetown University

             This article is archived as CONTENTS IPCTV4N2 on
                   LISTSERV@LISTSERV.GEORGETOWN.EDU
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1. Letter from the Managing Editor
2. Retrieval Instructions for Articles
3. Table of Contents and Abstracts
4. Editorial Board
5. Copyright Statement
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1. Letter from the Managing Editor

The transition to AECT publication of this journal is proceeding smoothly.
This will probably be my last issue as Managing Editor, while I will
remain a member of the editorial board.  It certainly has been an amazing
four year span for me, personally and professionally.

Joining IPCT-L four years ago last February started a chain of events
that has changed my whole life.  I had not even considered a doctorate at
that time; I do my comprehensive examinations in August, having completed
doctoral coursework in both Adult/Distance Education and Instructional
Systems Design.  My dissertation will focus on LISTSERV lists as voluntary
associations of Adult Learners, with IPCT-L as my case study.

E-journals were in their infancy when Zane pioneered this one; now they
have become a respectable venue for publication, and are indexed and
stored where even non-internet literate scholars can access them.

IPCT-J has its own WEB pages, where you can retrieve current and
back issues:

     URL  http://www.helsinki.fi/science/optek/

FTP and Gopher are no longer supported at Georgetown for the journal.

We again invite your submissions to IPCT-J.  IPCT-J is indexed in ERIC
and articles with a distance education emphasis are indexed in the British
Open University database.  I have also found links to the IPCT-J web
pages turning up in an increasing number of lists of distance education
resources.

Regards,
mauri collins, Managing Editor
URL: http://cac.psu.edu/~mauri/mauri.html

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2. Retrieval Instructions for Articles

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        Articles are stored as files at LISTSERV@LISTSERV.GEORGETOWN.EDU.
To retrieve this file, send the GET command appearing both before and after
the article abstract to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.GEORGETOWN.EDU.  Back issues of
the journal are stored at LISTSERV@LISTSERV.GEORGETOWN.EDU.  To obtain a
list of all available files, send the following message to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.GEORGETOWN.EDU:

INDEX

The name of each issue's table of contents file begins with the
word "CONTENTS".

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3. Contents
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IS ALL COHERENCE GONE?  THE ROLE OF NARRATIVE IN WEB DESIGN

Stephanie Gibson,
University of Baltimore, MD

ABSTRACT

This article offers some thoughts about how our new techniques
and technologies --  specifically hypertextual writing and the
World Wide Web -- veer away from characteristics embedded in
print.  It begins with a selective examination of narrative: How
it finds a home in culture and in academia, and what it becomes
in the hands of technology other than print. The literature of
hypermedia provides a helpful framework for examining the
rhetorical and symbolic implications of the World Wide Web.
Fissures between print narrative and World Wide Web narrative
exhibit how coherence is negotiated and understood in these two
media.  Characteristics unique to the World Wide Web will inform
a narrative coherence which values qualities different from those
currently found in the linear world of print.  Web coherence will
in part be anchored in associative, linked structures.  Some
suggestions and questions about the direction of rhetorical
structure for the World Wide Web are posed.

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Pages: 7-26

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GIRLS' PREFERENCES IN SOFTWARE DESIGN: INSIGHTS FROM A FOCUS
GROUP

Leslie Miller, Melissa Chaika, and Laura Groppe
Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning and
Center for Research on Parallel Computation
Rice University

ABSTRACT
    In today's technology reliant society, the divide between
those who are proficient  in computer technology and those who
are not is increasing along class, ethnic, and gender lines.
More specifically, the technology gap in relation to gender has
become so prevalent that it spans everything from the number of
female computer science majors to differences in females'
perception of computer utility. We believe that the lack of
gender-sensitive computer games compounds these differences.
Prefaced withprevious research indicating differences in patterns
of computer use and perceptions for males and females, this
article reports the characteristicswhich adolescent girls prefer
in entertainment software.  Based upon focus group responses,
several paradigms emerge that give insights for software
development which will stimulate girls' interests in computing
and, ultimately, in associated professions.

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Pages : 27-36
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UNIVERSITY - NATCHAUG INTEGRATED VOICE, VIDEO & DATA LINK

Michael Young, Ph.D. & Pam Campbell, Ph.D.
University of Connecticut,

ABSTRACT

The University and Natchaug School entered into a partnership
with two corporations to establish an integrated voice, video and
data link, using  fiber, coax and twisted pair connections.  This
system included full video conferencing capabilities as well as
the ability of each site to control the resources of the other.
In the process of using the network, we learned several things.
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We learned that the best users of the systems were students.  We
learned that technological systems are embedded in social
systems, and the technology can add new burdens for maintaining
courteous and respectful private interactions.  We learned that
building such a system is a dynamic ongoing process, that often
relies heavily on the good will and trust of the collaborating
organizations.  And, we learned that success (even limited
success) breeds its own problems.

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Pages: 37 - 46

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BOOK REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION AND CYBERSPACE: SOCIAL INTERACTION
IN AN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT Edited by Lance Strate, Ronald
Jacobson, and Stephanie B. Gibson

Reviewed By
James A. Capo, Ph.D.
Communication and Media Studies Department

ABSTRACT

This review of _Communication and Cyberspace_, edited by Strate,
Jacobson and Gibson highlights the collection's cultural and
humanistic approach to concepts of computer mediated
communication.  It analyzes the function, form and meaning
sections of the book through an assessment of the editors' own
essays in these sections.  At the heart of this review is how
essays in the book deal with the differences between the
"realities" of culture before computer mediated communication
(CMC) and the "prospects" for communication and culture in the
emerging inter-networked reality CMC generates.

Pages:  47 - 52

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4.  Editorial Board
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PUBLISHER:                    Department of Education
                              University of Maryland Baltimore County

EDITOR:
Susan B. Barnes               Communication Arts Department
                              Marymount Manhattan College

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Zane L. Berge                 Director, Training Systems, ISD Graduate
                                       Program
                              University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Gerald M. Santoro             Center for Academic Computing,
                              Pennsylvania State University

MANAGING EDITOR:
Mauri P. Collins              Adult and Distance Education Program
                              The Pennsylvania State 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
                              Management

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

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Paul J. Lippert               East Stroudsburg State University
                                  Pennsylvania
                              Communications

Edward Mabry                  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
                              Communication

Rory McGreal                  TeleEducation New Brunswick, Canada
                              Executive Director

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 L. Vakkilainen          University of Helsinki
                              Independent Educational Consultant

Amy Zelmer                    Central Queensland University, Australia
                              Health Science

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5. Copyright Statement
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Interpersonal Computing and Technology: An Electronic Journal for the
                             21st Century

Copyright 1996 University of Maryland Baltimore County.  Copyright of
individual articles in this publication is retained by the individual
authors.  Copyright of the compilation as a whole is held by the
University of Maryland Baltimore County. It is asked that any
republication of this article state that the article was first published
in IPCT-J.

Contributions to IPCT-J can be submitted by electronic mail in APA style
to: Susan Barnes, Editor IPCT-J SBBARNES@PIPLELINE.COM