Readings for Tuesday, November 23, 2004

First of all, sorry for taking so long to post this, everyone!

Don't forget that class is canceled on Tuesday, November 16, 2004. Please use the time to work on the rough drafts of your seminar papers which are due on Tuesday, November 30, 2004.

Our next seminar meeting will be Tuesday, November 23, and the readings are as follows:

The Powerbook, by Jeanette Winterson

The Effects and Dynamics of Networks, Texting, and Power Relationships on the Construction of Identity, by J.D. Applen, from Post Identity, Vol. 4, No. 1. (Simply scroll down to bottom of issue index to locate link to Applen article).

"TinySex and Gender Trouble" (Chapter 8) from Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, by Sherry Turkle (New York: Touchstone, 1995). (Circulated in class via Xerox handout).

"Gay Men and Computer Connmunication: A Discourse of Sex and Identity in Cyberspace," by David F. Shaw, from Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety, ed. Steven G. Jones (Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 1998). (Circulated in class via Xerox handout).