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New Scientist Webcams and videophones may hamper social communication
"Webcams and videophones may hinder communication, rather than improve it, says a British psychologist."

""Until recently, all psychological theories concerning the phone and the internet stressed what you lost when you couldn't see the person. My research has found that it isn't what you lose when you talk over the net that's important - it's what you gain."

Slashdot.Org Rethinking The Virtual Community: Part One
"Less than a decade ago, the Virtual Community was one of the most powerful ideas emanating from the Net, and BBS's and the nascent Internet were already providing glimpses of a better world to come. Proponents are a lot wiser -- and sadder -- now. Can the Virtual Community survive adolescent flamers and the dotcom era? Yes, but it will have to be dramatically reconceived."

3rd Annual ARCUS Award for Arctic Research Excellence Inuit in Cyberspace: Practising and Constructing Computer-mediated Space
"Research on the use of Internet or Cyberspace in relation to off-line space and sociality is uncommon to address in Arctic anthropology. The general research that does actually deal with Cyberspace, however, focuses more on strict on-line behaviour without much concern for dynamics between on-line and off-line space and sociality. Thus, naturally avoiding the physicality of the Arctic regions, it leaves the research reported in this paper to approach a rather new area. While most of the on-line Cyberstudies undertaken deal with American or European users, they unintendedly create and sustain universal ideas that, however, do not necessarily apply to all Internet-users. Often they focus on Cyber-space as if it was a single social vacuum without any recursive bonds to Lifespace and physical space; operating in a mental paradigm, that assumes people to be without cultural differences in Cyberspace.

However, as this paper will argue, the world, the conceptions of it and use of space within it, be it Cyberspace or physical space, are clearly more than vacuums of mental space."

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