Theories on WebCams?

I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia and I'm currently working on a project for my Media Studies course. I've been trying to learn about psychology involved in webcam technology with the hopes that I might be able to organize the ideas in a coherent paper.

It seems that webcam technology involves:
1. those who set up & run webcams on their servers
2. those who access sites and watch webcam footage
3. those who are knowingly or unknowingly captured by a
webcam, and then broadcasted to the world wide web

Thus it should follow that there are theories as to how webcam technology affects these three (often overlapping) groups. My dilemma is that I've found a great deal of difficulty locating such theories; although looking through this site (and others that are similar), I've found a wealth of interesting and thought-provoking, but ultimately "uncitable" information.

Any ideas or directions you can point me about for more information on the psychology of webcams? Thanks for any suggestions!

my email: justin.reznick@virginia.edu

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Re:Theories on WebCams?, by John, 11/14/00

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