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Bridging Physics And Communications: Experimental Detection And Analysis Of Web Site Users’ Paths In An Environment Of Free Choice, David M. Frye Dec 2000

Bridging Physics And Communications: Experimental Detection And Analysis Of Web Site Users’ Paths In An Environment Of Free Choice, David M. Frye

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

A role for professional communicators to play in a postmodern context is to work as an experimentalist, designing a system that supports users’ free engagement with the content of the system, inviting people to engage that system, observing the ways in which those engagements proceed, and from those observations, learning how to refine the system to support more fruitful future engagements.The role serves to cultivate an environment in which users’ conversations with one another and their interaction with the system’s content may thrive.This thesis purposes that the experimentalist is a useful and practical role for a communicator in the current …


Trends. Wanted: An Internet Psychology, Ibpp Editor May 2000

Trends. Wanted: An Internet Psychology, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the prospect of analyzing internet psychology, or the impact of internet use on human psychology and political socialization.


Online Counseling: Much To Do About Nothing In The Political World?, Ibpp Editor Apr 2000

Online Counseling: Much To Do About Nothing In The Political World?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some of the common issues in assessing the efficacy of online counseling.


Trends. More On The Psychology Of The Internet: Ignoring The Old For The New?, Ibpp Editor Feb 2000

Trends. More On The Psychology Of The Internet: Ignoring The Old For The New?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the psychological impact of Internet use as well as potential methodological biases in the haste to report noxious consequences of this behavior.


Trends. The Political Psychology Of The Psychology Of The Internet, Ibpp Editor Feb 2000

Trends. The Political Psychology Of The Psychology Of The Internet, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses whether Internet users experience higher levels of loneliness and depression than non-users. It is based on one study from Carnegie Mellon University, and another joint study from the Stanford Institute for the Qualitative Study of Society and the Free University of Berlin.