put IRVC-L life info Forum for Research on Virtual Culture IRVC-L@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu The Institute for Research on Virtual Culture (IRVC) aims to foster, encourage, advance, and communicate research and scholarly inquiry on virtual culture. IRVC-L is a virtual forum of IRVC to conduct substantive discourse on research and scholarly inquiry to create and develop knowledge about virtual culture. Substantive discourse is encouraged on topics such as: 1. Conceptualization of virtual culture (alternative philosophic, metatheoretical, and theoretical paradigms, principles, assumptions, propositions, and problems) 2. Alternative futures orientation, change, transformation, reform, and restructuring: conservative, liberal, or radical 3. Review and critique of literature, including articles in refereed scholarly journals 4. Alternative designs and methodologies for research and scholarly inquiry on virtual culture 5. Findings, conclusions and implications for education, 6. Research in progress on virtual culture 7. Collaborative research by subscribers 8. Setting the research agenda on virtual culture 9. Institute for Research on Virtual Culture 10. Relevant announcements, events, and issues <<< Subscription to IRVC-L >>> Subscription to IRVC-L is open, but the list is private and subscription is required to post messages to the forum and access listserv archives. To subscribe to IRVC-L send a message to listserv@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu with the line of text: subscribe IRVC-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname Example: subscribe IRVC-L Thomas Jefferson <<< Unsubscribing from IRVC-L >>> To unsubscribe from IRVC-L send an email message to listserv@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu with the sole line of text: unsubscribe IRVC-L <<< Sending a Message to IRVC-L >>> Messages sent to the forum will be automatically distributed to all subscribers. Such messages should be within the scope of the purposes of the forum: Substantive discourse of virtual culture, related research issues (e.g., design and/or methodology) relevant announcements, and other messages pertinent to the forum. To send a message to the forum, address the message to IRVC-L@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu. [Do not send a message intended for the forum to the listserv.] <<< IRVC-L Archive >>> Messages are automatically archived in monthly digests with filenames IRVC-L.mmm.yy, where mmm is the first three letters of the month and yy last two numerals of the year. Other files will be archived as well. All messages sent to IRVC-L are archived at byrd.mu.wvnet.edu. To get an index of the archive of files and digests of messages send a message to listserv@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu with the line of text: index IRVC-L <<< UNIX-listserver >>> IRVC-L is on a unix listserver. To receive a list of commands that may be used on this listserver send a message to listserv@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu with the line of text: help Other commands may be included on separate lines in the message, such as: review IRVC-L (to get a list of unconcealed subscribers to IRVC-L) get IRVC-L irvc-l.aug.93 (to get the archived messages to IRVC-L for August 1993) <<< Anonymous FTP Archive >>> IRVC maintains archives, including research papers and reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, journals, and other information about IRVC and virtual culture. The archive may be accessed by anonymous FTP to byrd.mu.wvnet.edu in /pub/estepp/IRVC in various subdirectories. Research scholars and writers may submit documents to be archived. Retrieve file archive.submission from /pub/estepp/IRVC and follow the instructions in it. The _Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture_ (EJVC) is a refereed, scholarly journal published by Arachnet, with the cooperation of the Kent State University and the Institute for Research on Virtual Culture, Marshall University. The EJVC is archived at byrd.mu.wvnet.edu in /pub/ejvc, and it is retrievable via anonymous FTP. Get EJVC.ARCHIVES from the archives via FTP. Articles published in the EJVC will be discussed on IRVC-L. To subscribe to the EJVC, send email to listserv@KENTVM.BITNET or listserv@KENTVM.KENT.EDU with the sole line of text: subscribe EJVC-L Firstname Lastname using your real name, of course. <<< Listowner >>> Questions about IRVC, IRVC-L, EJVC and related issues may be directed to the listowner: Dr. Ermel Stepp Executive Director Institute for Research on Virtual Culture Marshall University Huntington WV 25755-2440 Internet estepp@byrd.mu.wvnet.edu BITNET M034050@MARSHALL finger M034050@MARSHALL.MU.WVNET.EDU