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Thanks Bill,
Didn't someone recently post a list of sites/references to studies of e-mail
communication?
I have been saving all the posts since I joined the list (2144 since
27/4/00- not including my own posts, which I keep in my sent items folder,
and probably add a few hundred since I'm such a mouthy git!), and have
considered doing that kind of analysis.
There's certainly enough there.
Vincent
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> From: William Benzon
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 1:59 pm
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: DNA Culture .... Trivia?
>
> on 1/22/01 7:27 AM, Vincent Campbell at v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk wrote:
>
> > Do you notice how, there can be weeks of very little activity on the
> list,
> > but when people start getting a bit agitated, it suddenly explodes into
> life
> > (albeit very red and tooth and claw)?
>
> Well, if someone wants to undertake a little research project, they could
> count up all the messages in the archive and plot the number of messages
> against time (say, the number of messages per day) and analyze that
> distribution.
>
> There's been a bit of research that analyzes internet traffic flow at the
> packet level. This research shows that it has a fractal distribution. I
> wonder if we'd get that kind of result at the message level for this list.
>
> >
> > I have mixed feelings about it. I enjoy a heated debate, but I also
> think
> > its brings the worst out in us, especially on a faceless e-mail list,
> where
> > people talk to each other in ways they never would face to face (and
> I've
> > been as guilty of this as anyone else).
>
> A psychologist named Norman Holland has written an article on what he
> calls
> the internet regression, what happens in email communication. I'm sure if
> you do a web search on his name, or on "internet regression" you'll come
> up
> with the article sooner or later.
>
> Bill b
>
>
>
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