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  2-4.1 The mediamoo
Like at a coffee break at a conference, there is a social convention that it is appropriate to strike up a conversation with strangers simply based on their name tags.
On MediaMOO, you can read descriptions of people's research interests as well as their names, and this can form a basis for striking up a substantive conversation [Bruckman 93].
The operators of MediaMOO have provided the materials for the buildings of this community, but are not responsible for what is said or done in them.
tecfa.unige.ch /moo/VMDL/VMDL-25.html   (1071 words)

  
 Barcelona 2002
By requesting former participants of MediaMOO to comment on its heydays and pitfalls and its influence in subsequent professional projects, my main objective was to analyze if what happened in this one-of-a-kind on-line environment that mixed educational and professional Media cultures, could happen in a similar agency set up in a university domain.
My hypothesis for depicting this model was based on the assumption that MediaMOO clearly fits in the organization of Media Studies (as an academic discipline) as a playground where students would go to be trained as better mediators of the mass communication processes they are taught to manage in class.
A potential model based on the MediaMOO's lessons is meant to be a superior learning environment that would accompany courses and that would let the Media community to better explore the Internet as a media format that opens up possibilities to explore other Media.
www.portalcomunicacion.com /bcn2002/n_eng/programme/prog_ind/asp4.asp?id_pre=612   (820 words)

  
 "Democracy" in Cyberspace
MediaMOO is a text-based virtual reality environment or MUD on the Internet designed to be a professional community for media researchers.
I thought that MediaMOO had been founded on a principle of scholarly sharing and that one of its most unique qualities is that we all know each other's identities and addresses.
I think someone's dog died or they hated their job or they hated their spouse and it was just a lot easier to yell at people through this political process and express their personal feelings of anger through that channel than to deal with the fact that the truth is that they hate their lives.
fragment.nl /mirror/various/Bruckman_A.1996.Democracy_in_cyberspace.html   (3720 words)

  
 [No title]
On MediaMOO, you can read descriptions of people\rquote s research interests as well as their names, and this can form a basis for striking up a substantive conversation.\par However, name tags alone are not enough.
System development began on October 28th, 1992, and MediaMOO was opened to the public on January 20th, 1993, with an opening celebration called the MediaMOO Inaugural Ball, scheduled to coincide with Bill Clinton\rquote s inauguration as President of the United States.
There are a variety of contributory objects around MediaMOO, including statues of famous sociologists and historians of science that you scribble on (de signed to promote discussion of their work), and a projects chalkboard for ideas for new objects and places.
www.cs.uml.edu /~fredm/cher/people/asb/papers/convergence.rtf   (3892 words)

  
 MOO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MediaMOO is designed for professional media researchers now hosted at Northern Illinois University's Department of English.
It was originally created in 1993 by Amy Bruckman at the Epistemology and Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab.
In its heyday around 1996, MediaMOO had over 1000 members, was governed by an elected council, and hosted frequent meetings, including the Tuesday Cafe, a weekly discussion of members of the Computers and Writing community.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MOO   (1871 words)

  
 MediaMOO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
MediaMOO is a research project of Amy Bruckman started at the Epistemology and Learning Group at The MIT Media Lab, and is now hosted at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.
MediaMOO was founded by graduate students, and continues to be grounded in an academic environment.
MediaMOO would become a very different place if it were to become a classroom instead of a open forum.
www.cc.gatech.edu /~asb/MediaMOO   (546 words)

  
 "Democracy" in Cyberspace
MediaMOO is a text-based virtual reality environment or MUD on the Internet designed to be a professional community for media researchers.
I thought that MediaMOO had been founded on a principle of scholarly sharing and that one of its most unique qualities is that we all know each other's identities and addresses.
I think someone's dog died or they hated their job or they hated their spouse and it was just a lot easier to yell at people through this political process and express their personal feelings of anger through that channel than to deal with the fact that the truth is that they hate their lives.
www.fragment.nl /mirror/various/Bruckman_A.1996.Democracy_in_cyberspace.html   (3720 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The MediaMOO project, which I began in fall of 1992, is designed to enhance professional community amongst media researchers [2].
MediaMOO currently has over 500 participants from fourteen countries and is growing rapidly.
She is founder and ArchJanitor of MediaMOO, a MUD designed to enhance professional community amongst media researchers.
ftp.game.org /pub/mud/text/research/gender-swapping.txt   (3032 words)

  
 [No title]
The Virtual STS Centre is part of MediaMOO, a MUD which primarily serves researchers in the areas of interactive media, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computers and learning, and which opened in January, 1993.
The researchers who created and administer MediaMOO (the "janitors") invite STS users to inhabit this area of their virtual world in the hope that mutually beneficial and productive interactions will occur between the two populations of users.
Wade Roush ("Wade" on MediaMOO) is a science journalist and a doctoral candidate in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, researching the social and political meaning of technological disasters.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/communications/papers/muds/moo/STS-Centre-FAQ   (1679 words)

  
 [No title]
MediaMOO is a text-based, networked, virtual reality environment designed to enhance professional community among media researchers.
System development began on October 28th, 1992, and MediaMOO was opened to the public on January 20th, 1993, with an opening celebration called the MediaMOO Inaugural Ball, scheduled to coincide with Bill Clinton's inauguration as President of the United States.
There are a variety of contributory objects around MediaMOO, including statues of famous sociologists and historians of science that you scribble on (designed to promote discussion of their work), and a projects chalkboard for ideas for new objects and places.
www-static.cc.gatech.edu /fac/Amy.Bruckman/papers/convergence.html   (5063 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
MediaMOO is a text-based, networked, virtual reality environment designed to extend the type of casual collaboration which occurs at conferences to a daily activity.(1) Visitors to a conference share not just a set of interests, but also a place and a set of activities.
A number of users commented that their most meaningful interactions on the MUD were with the "regulars"-the people who use MediaMOO the most and are most likely to be logged on at any given time.
It wasn't until after Albert (Albert Lin) implemented this feature that it occurred to us that it was similar to the comments message, with one important difference: the comments message is controlled by the owner of an object; the commentable object creates a dialog among members of the community about the object.
ftp.game.org /pub/mud/text/research/mediamoo.txt   (4679 words)

  
 Citations: Virtual Professional Community: Results from the MediaMOO project - Bruckman, Resnick (ResearchIndex)
MediaMOO is a MUD that is accessible only for media professionals.
In interviews with frequent users of a MOO like system [6] we found that they talked about the system in a very spatial language as if these environments were....
A pilot project has been run to allow astronomers from all across the globe to meet and communicate using a MUD with added functionality to present graphical images and sound as well as text (Curtis, 1992) Text based virtual reality offers some very real opportunities for studying some aspects....
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/46533/6241   (964 words)

  
 It's about the Community Plumbing: The Social Aspects of Content Management Systems | Kairosnews
MediaMOO used Pavel Curtis' existing lambda core, but the folks at the Media Lab at MIT had a lot of fun designing an architecture for it.
It would be interesting to try to think of a way in which a technological development might have helped to solve the problem by allowing both groups (those who wanted anonymity and more freedom and those who wanted real names and more control) to get a bit of what they wanted.
I'm not as well versed in either MediaMOO as Michael or Drupal as Charlie, but when reading what Michael had to say about MediaMOO earlier, it struck me that one possible reason for its demise would be the disparate motivations for folks who used it.
www.kairosnews.org /node/4282   (1750 words)

  
 Jan 96: Finding One's Own in Cyberspace
MediaMOO is a "multi-user dungeon" or MUD--a virtual world on the Internet with rooms, objects, and people from all around the world.
Initially, I decided that members of MediaMOO should be allowed to choose: they could identify themselves with their real names and e-mail addresses, or remain anonymous.
Similarly, if MediaMOO were the only virtual community or MIT the only university, I'd argue that they should be open to all.
llk.media.mit.edu /papers/Bruckman.html   (3760 words)

  
 A look at some ``meeting'' MOOs
Well known examples are the MediaMOO (Media Researchers), AstroMOO (Astronomers), BioMOO (Biologists) and PMCMOO (Post Modern Culture).
It is a place to come meet colleagues in media studies and related fields and brainstorm, to hold colloquia and conferences, to explore the serious side of this new medium.
MediaMOO would become a very different place if it were filled with, for example, hundreds of freshman composition students.
tecfa.unige.ch /moo/book1/node24.html   (476 words)

  
 Invitation to Netoric's Tuesday Cafe discussion, 1/28/97 (fwd)
Here are a couple of ways to read it: If you have a MediaMOO character, you can go to MediaMOO and do `@subscribe *research' to subscribe to the list; then use `@next on *research' (over and over) to read the posts on the list one at a time.
Being subscribed to the list means you'll be notified when new posts appear on it, and the MOO keeps track of where you are in the list so that, for example, any time you use the `@next' command, you'll automatically pick up where you left off last time.
If you're using a guest character to log into MediaMOO, or you just don't want to be subscribed to the list, you can go to MediaMOO and read the posts on the list by doing `@peek 1 on *research', `@peek 2 on *research', and so on.
www.ttu.edu /wcenter/9701/msg00316.html   (459 words)

  
 MUD Planet: MUD Entry, MediaMOO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
MediaMOO is a professional community for media reseachers.
The first 'professional' MUD, MediaMOO has been open since January 1993, and is home to a thousand artists, anthropologists, computer scientists, psychologists, writing teachers, and others.
An application is required to become a member, and all members are identified by their real names, email addresses, and a description of their research interests.
www.mudplanet.net /mud_list.php?type=MUD&p=MediaMOO   (241 words)

  
 [No title]
The MediaMOO project, which I began in fall of 1992, is designed to enhance professional community among media researchers (Bruckman and Resnick 93).
The community of learners present on MediaMOO was one of his key motivations for learning to program.
Susan comments that for her, the tutorials' primary function was to help her overcome that initial emotional barrier: "I did cdr's tutorials and I realized 'I can do this!' But then I had to step back and figure out what it was that I had done." Cdr began by programming a "television set" object.
www.cs.uml.edu /~fredm/cher/people/asb/papers/necc94.txt   (3312 words)

  
 Il ciberspazio non è disneyland
MediaMOO ha aperto nel gennaio del 1993 e a settembre del 1995 aveva 1000 membri da 32 paesi.
Io non ho creato molto di MediaMOO… ho creato un contesto per far creare i suoi membri.
Ogni membro di MediaMOO automaticamente ha il diritto di programmare nuovi oggetti e può costruire nuovi spazi (locati privatamente) senza dover chiedere il permesso.
www.intercom.publinet.it /2001/disneyland.htm   (2616 words)

  
 * [Doors of Perception] *
MediaMOO is a text-based, networked, virtual reality environment designed to extend the type of casual collaboration which occurs at conferences to a daily activity.
On MediaMOO, you can read descriptions of people's research interests as well as their names, and this can form a basis for striking up a substantive conversation.
It wasn't until after Albert (Albert Lin) implemented this feature that it occurred to us that it was similar to the comments message, with one important difference: the comments message is controlled by the owner of an object; the commentable object creates a dialogue among members of the community about the object.
museum.doorsofperception.com /doors2/transcripts/bruckm.html   (4718 words)

  
 meet me in cyberspace
But previous experience told me that MediaMOO was a good place to hang out in order to meet up with some of the "names" of virtual communities and MUDs.
What makes MediaMOO different is that it's enabled me to do useful work, work which I might not have been able to do any other way (which presumably is why we're all so willing to spend time banging away on a QWERTY).
Note: The Tuesday Café is part of the Netoric Project; the purpose of the café is for discussion on current issues in using computers in the teaching of writing, not necessarily literature.
sunsite.unc.edu /cmc/mag/1994/sep/meetme.html   (1765 words)

  
 help manners
MediaMOO has some rules that are stricter than the rules in a number of other MOOs--elseMOO.
People who have identities on MediaMOO must be doing media research and thus are likely to be graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty than students or non-university-affiliated people.
Though everybody at MediaMOO, and at the Cafe, is doing research, members are expected not to conduct research on the people they interact with there.
english.ttu.edu /kairos/1.2/coverweb/Cogdill/helpmanners.html   (284 words)

  
 Stivale: Help Manners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
MediaMOO's paradigm is a research complex, with libraries, laboratories, class and meeting rooms, as well as a network of individual spaces, less extensive than on Lambda (see Bruckman and Resnick).
That is, whereas one's LambdaMOO character registration is hindered only by a delay due to limitations on per-day admissions, MediaMOO requires the vetting of one's current research activities in media studies for admission as a registered participant.
II.a: Meanwhile, on MediaMOO, until fall 1993, no system of governance was in place other than the autocratic rule of the site's chief "janitor", Amy Bruckman.
www.utdallas.edu /~cynthiah/lingua_archive/help_manners.html   (6409 words)

  
 It's about the Community Plumbing: The Social Aspects of Content Management Systems | Kairosnews
MediaMOO used Pavel Curtis' existing lambda core, but the folks at the Media Lab at MIT had a lot of fun designing an architecture for it.
It would be interesting to try to think of a way in which a technological development might have helped to solve the problem by allowing both groups (those who wanted anonymity and more freedom and those who wanted real names and more control) to get a bit of what they wanted.
I'm not as well versed in either MediaMOO as Michael or Drupal as Charlie, but when reading what Michael had to say about MediaMOO earlier, it struck me that one possible reason for its demise would be the disparate motivations for folks who used it.
kairosnews.org /its-about-the-community-plumbing-the-social-aspects-of-content-management-systems   (1781 words)

  
 [No title]
Constructionism In an important sense, MediaMOO is more like a community center than a tavern or conference reception, because it serves as a context for member-organized events and projects.
A World Built by Its Inhabitants The center of MediaMOO is a virtual copy of the MIT Media Lab.
Future Directions: A MUD for Kids The MediaMOO Project was conceived in part as preparation for a MUD for kids, "MOOSE Crossing," which is currently under development.
www.rpi.edu /AFS/home/92/sundab/yesterday/PhdProposal/Assessment/MOO.doc   (4876 words)

  
 Wired 1.03: The Dragon Ate My Homework
When MediaMOO was announced early in 1992, Bruckman and Resnick emphasized the incompleteness of the architecture.
In MediaMOO, as in any scientific conference, you can look at other participants' badges and see what they have to say about their special interest.
The architects of MediaMOO decided to have an inaugural ball to celebrate MediaMOO's opening on the same night Clinton and Gore were celebrating their inauguration, January 20.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/1.03/muds.html?pg=6&topic=   (592 words)

  
 [No title]
CMC is a relatively new field of studies, and the exchanges taking place through Internet show many characteristics which are those of a child's discourse, before the child has been exposed to a significant number of experts, enough to enable it to bridge the gap between spontaneous and scientific concepts.
These constitute by no means an exhaustive list; they are to be considered merely as samples of CMC which mirror part of my own personal experience in the field.
Mediamoos are visited by both students and scholars, and some of them are very elaborate virtual environments.
psych.hanover.edu /vygotsky/bacalar.html   (2316 words)

  
 meet me in cyberspace
But previous experience told me that MediaMOO was a good place to hang out in order to meet up with some of the "names" of virtual communities and MUDs.
What makes MediaMOO different is that it's enabled me to do useful work, work which I might not have been able to do any other way (which presumably is why we're all so willing to spend time banging away on a QWERTY).
Note: The Tuesday Café is part of the Netoric Project; the purpose of the café is for discussion on current issues in using computers in the teaching of writing, not necessarily literature.
www.december.com /cmc/mag/1994/sep/meetme.html   (1765 words)

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