WEEK 13 GROUP
REPORT
Hey kids, welcome to another installment of weekly group report stuff. This week
I looked into the topic of etiquette on the net or "netiquette". The two search
engines I engaged (doesn't that sound really cool, engaged) were Power Search and
Metacrawler. I just thought (actually hoped that I would find something so I wouldn't have to
look up more help manuals [because the kids were screaming for change]).
Ok, first the Power Search results. This gave me some accurate
hits and some rather
interesting things to look at. The first document
I looked at was Netiquette,
Cybertoon Home Page.
This homepage basically talked about the development and copyright
of a
new cybertoon named Netiquette. It was kind of brief, a little
non-specific,
and I have no idea if this will be funny or not (we'll
see). Well I suppose if done
in such a way, cartoons can provide a
running commentary on social psychology issues,
in terms of
relationships, attitudes, etc.
The next thing I looked at was
called Netiquette,
by Virginia Shea . This turned out to be a big fake out, it was an add for her
book, and they teased you with the table of contents (that really drives me insane). It seeme
d rather light and conversational and easy to
read but I
don't know, go buy the book. I do suppose that this would come under the heading
of helping others (although I don't know how magnanimous this help is [it's a rather
crass form of commercialism if you ask me]).
One last link I too
k a look at in Power Search was PolitenessMan's
Guide to Netiquette . Pretty funny, light, and mildly entertaining but brought
to you by AT&T, I don't quite know what
they're in it for (but it's got to be something). As for social psychology, helping
others (but for what gains).
Okey, dokey, on to the Metacrawler. I found one thing that I will talk about, because
this seems to be the basis for netiquette
pages around the web. This document is User Guidelines and
Netiquette,
by Arlene Rinaldi . This Arlene Rinaldi seems to be
the author when it comes
to netiquette, she wrote the guts
of most of the above documents and seems to have
quite a grasp on the
subject. The tone was semi-humorous, conversational, easy to read but
I
think the most important thing that comes through is the sincerity with
which this
information is presented, unlike the above pages, Rinaldi
seems to do it, because she is genuinely trying to help other people
out. That's really cool, it reaffirms my belief in humanity. Until next
week kids.