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From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: DNA Culture .... Trivia?
Date sent: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:10:09 -0000
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> Thanks Bill,
>
> Didn't someone recently post a list of sites/references to studies of e-mail
> communication?
>
Go to:
http://www.lucifer.com/~eboyd/sanctuary/EoE.htm
fir the study "An Epistemology of Email."
>
> 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
>
> > ----------
> > 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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