Hi CJ,
I found your intro quite interesting because...
> My current research interests are in the use of elecrtonic communications
> to form virtual communities.
I am writing about this as well.
> It includes issues about empowerment of
> groups who would normally be excluded,
Yeah me too, I just authored a book chapter on community-based ICT
interventions for ppl with mental illness.
>One area in which I am particularly interested is
> in the idea that anonymity empowers and confuses. If you don't know
> who/what I am, how do you respond to me? Prejudice doesn't work in teh
> same way if you don't know whether the person you are "talking" with is
> black, white, male, female, tall, short, fat, thin or uses glasses, or a hearing
> aid, or a wheelchair.
You are familiar with Kaitlin McKenna's work too?
> How much can a
> person tell of somebody with whom they have only had written
> communication?
James Pennebacker's?
Regards,
Ro'
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