Chat!
January 18, 1999
You are cordially invited to participate in the first scheduled chat for BOL members and others interested on Sunday, January 24th, 9:00-10:30pm (eastern).
At that time, BOL Consulting Editor, John Suler will lead a discussion about "CHAT AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CYBERSPACE". John is also the very able facilitator of the ongoing BOL forum on The Psychology of Cyberspace. Details about the scheduled chat are below. I hope you will be able to join us at that time.
We are still in the process of developing the BOL chat room. At the time of this writing, the chat room is open and it will remain open (except when repairs may be in progress) until the scheduled chat. You are also most welcome to visit at any time.
Gilbert Levin
Editor and Publisher
Behavior OnLine
An invitation from John Suler, Ph.D.:
"CHAT AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CYBERSPACE"
Sunday, January 24th, 9:00-10:30pm (eastern)
Behavior Online (chat login)
We will focus on the various manifestations and applications of "chat"
(online synchronous communication) - including counseling and
psychotherapy, support groups, chat communities, and chat meetings.
Because the roundtable discussion is itself a chat meeting, we can use
the opportunity to explore chat communication techniques and discuss
the dynamics of the meeting. Broadening the topic, we also can compare
chat to other modes of communication, including e-mail, newsgroups
(forums), multimedia chat, and in-person interactions. Thus,
Michael Fenichel, Ph.D., Psych Services, NYC. Clinical psychologist, author, and online publisher of "Current Topics in Psychology".
John Grohol, online psychologist; Webmaster/Director of Mental Health Net; author of "The Insider's Guide to Mental Health Resources Online".
Stacy Horn, founder of the online community Echo in NYC; author of "Cyberville: Clicks, Culture and the Creation of an Online Town"; and instructor for the course "Virtual Culture" at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.
Storm King, MS. Doctoral Candidate, clinical psychology. Maintains a web site listing resources for the study of the psychology of virtual communities and has authored articles on online self-help and online therapy.
Rick "River" Larson, digital biographer, wizard at Electric Communities "Palace" sites.
Gilbert Levin, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine and of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine; founder/director of the Cape Cod Institute and editor and publisher of Behavior OnLine.
Liz Margoshes, clinical psychologist practicing in New York City; host of the Psychology Conference on Echo; former editor of the column "Dr. Lovelady" for the webzine WORD.
Cyndi Pock ("FO"), former AOL chat host; e-mail lists administrator; wizard at Electric Communities "Palace" sites; founder of the online magazine "The Scarlet Letters".
Mike Sellers, Chief Creative Officer of the Big Network, an online entertainment and community site; and designer of Meridian 59, the first 3D massively multiplayer role playing game.
John Suler, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Rider University; clinical psychologist, cyberpsychology researcher and author of "The Psychology of Cyberspace".
We strongly recommend that you visit Behavior Online ahead of time, register, and test out the chat software (see the address for chat login at the top of this page). For this meeting, we will be using the chat software "FreeChat." Once you're in FreeChat, read the help page. It's easy to understand.
A list of members attending the meeting will be available. If you'd like your name and a description of your background, affiliation, work (etc.) included on that list, send an e-mail with that information to suler@voicenet.com.
If you're interested in some background reading about chat, here's an article you might find useful: TextTalk: Communicating with typed text in chat rooms.
I hope to see you there!
- John Suler -
Behavior Online Consulting Editor
suler@voicenet.com
http://www1.rider.edu/~wwwpsy/suler.html
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