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                      InterCom: A newsletter of the
             Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

Six items in this issue:

  1. Pepperdine University joins CIOS institutional affiliates
     program

  2. Search the online program for the Speech Communication
     Association conference (New Orleans, November 19-22)

  3. A message from William Eadie (SCA Associate Director) about
     the new online conference program

  4. Announcing the Endowment for Meta-Analysis Award

  5. Call for Papers: Language, Play and Performance

  6. How to cancel a Comserve hotline subscription

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             CIOS/Comserve Institutional Affiliates Program
                          Welcomes New Member

    The Communication Institute for Online Scholarship welcomes
Pepperdine University to those institutions contributing support for
CIOS activities through the CIOS/Comserve Institutional Affiliates
Program.

    For more information about joining the CIOS/Comserve Institutional
Affiliates Program, send this message to Comserve:

                         Help Topics Affiliates

    If you would like printed materials that describe the Institutional
Affiliates Program mailed to a department head or administrator at your
university or college, send the CIOS staff the name and mailing address
of the relevant individual.  The e-mail address for the CIOS staff is
Support@vm.its.rpi.edu

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   Search the Online Program for The Speech Communication Association
    Conference Through Comserve and the CIOS/Comserve Gopher Service

    In cooperation with the Speech Communication Association, the
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship now supports access to a
new database containing the program for the upcoming SCA conference (New
Orleans, November 19-22, 1994).  The conference database is available
through both the CIOS gopher service and through Comserve's traditional
Bitnet and e-mail interfaces (using the new "SCA" command -- see below).

    The conference database provides a unique way to browse the rich set
of offerings at the SCA conference.  Because the CIOS/Comserve software
indexes every word in the titles of presentations and events, as well as
the name of every author and participant and the organizational sponsor,
it is possible to consult the SCA conference database to locate events
of interest in more ways than one can using the traditional printed
version of the program (which contains only a name index).  Every record
returned by a search lists the time and place of the event allowing one
to construct itineraries reflecting personal interest.  Just print your
search result and bring it to the conference.

    An announcement from William F. Eadie, SCA Associate Director,
follows this description of how to use the new services.  If you find
this new service useful, *please let him know*.  SCA is evaluating their
investment in electronic services and has announced that it would
appreciate comments from users.  Mr. Eadie's e-mail address is
                      William_EADIE@umail.umd.edu

          How To Access the SCA Electronic Convention Program

    Interested in the Lincoln/Douglas debates?  Conversation analysis?
Communication apprehension?  The scholarship of Jurgen Habermas?
Organizational democracy?  Communication history?  Public relations?
Interpersonal solidarity?  Mass communication and the public sphere?
African-American rhetoric?  Health communication?  Computer mediated
communication?  Participant observation?  Q methodology?  Family
communication?  Qualitative methodologies?  Conflict?  Metaphor?
Relational communication?  Ethnomethodology?  Spouse abuse?  Political
correctness?  Free speech?  Public address?  Self-disclosure?  Political
cartooning?  Nonverbal communication?  Rhetoric of science?
Post-modernism?  Television violence?  Papers and panels addressing
these and hundreds of other topics can be easily located in the new
electronic database.

              Accessing the SCA Online Conference Program
                Through the CIOS/Comserve Gopher Service

    The address for the Gopher interface to CIOS/Comserve services can
be stated as either 128.113.33.17 or CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU  To access the
CIOS/Comserve Gopher service, you must have a Gopher client program and
an account on a computer with a direct Internet connection.  Start your
local Gopher client program like this:

                        Gopher CIOS.LLC.RPI.EDU
or like this:
                          Gopher 128.113.33.17

    For additional information about the CIOS/Comserve Gopher service,
send this message to Comserve:  Help Topics Gopher


              Accessing the SCA Online Conference Program
            Through Comserve's Bitnet and E-mail Interfaces

    A new command -- SCA -- has been added to Comserve that provides a
method for searching the SCA online conference program.  The conference
program can be searched by participant name, by words in the title of
presentations and events, and by SCA sponsoring unit.  For example, to
search for all presentations by Smith:

               SCA name smith

To search for all presentations or events that contain the word
"conversation" in their title:

               SCA topic conversation

To search for all presentations sponsored by SCA's Mass Communication
Division:

               SCA sponsor Mass Communication

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     About the SCA and CIOS/Comserve Online SCA Conference Program
      Submitted by: William F. Eadie <William_EADIE@umail.umd.edu>

    The Speech Communication Association and Comserve have joined to
begin a service--an online, searchable version of SCA's 1994 convention
program.  Users may search the program by author name, keyword, or
sponsoring SCA unit, and the results may be displayed and downloaded for
further use.

    SCA's 1994 convention will be held at the New Orleans Marriott
Hotel, November 19-22, 1994.  Registration for both the hotel and the
convention now underway.  Contact the SCA National Office at (703)
750-0533 for details.

    Many thanks to Tim Stephen, the Comserve Staff, and especially David
Weber for their work in putting the convention program into an online,
searchable format.  Since this is the first of what we hope might be a
number of efforts to make online information available to the scholarly
community, comments are especially valuable.  Address them to me at
William_Eadie@umail.umd.edu

William F. EADIE, Associate Director
Speech Communication Association
5105 Backlick Road, Bldg. E
Annandale, VA 22003
Email:William_EADIE@umail.umd.edu (we14)
Phone:(703) 750-0533, FAX: (703) 914-9470

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            Announcing the Endowment for Meta-Analysis Award
             Submitted by: Mike Allen <mikealle@csd.uwm.edu>

  The John E. Hunter Award for Meta-Analysis of Communication Research

    The Information Systems Division of the International Communication
Association is seeking applications for a cash award presented at the
Information Systems Business Meeting in Albequerque, New Mexico.  The
award recognizes the contribution of a scholar to communication
scholarship using meta-analytic techniques to advance the study of human
communication.

    To be eligible for the award a person must:  (a) be a member of ICA,
(b) have authored or coauthored works involving meta-analysis, (c) not
have received the award in the previous four years, (d) have published
work(s) within the last 10 years (for this award publication date 1984
or more recent), and (e) the work(s) must involve meta-analysis within
the broad field of communication.

    Meta-analysis is defined as the quantitative synthesis and/or
modeling of previously published or presented data.  The work(s) under
consideration must advance the practice, theory, or application of
quantitative data synthesis (meta-analysis).  The award may be given for
a series of work(s) as well as a single work.  The single award may be
divided among multiple persons, each person meeting the eligibility
requirements.

    A completed application shall consist of the following:

1.  Statement of Applicant(s) that they wish to be considered for
    award.
2.  Four copies of relevant publications for consideration by the
    Awards Committee.
3.  Justification of why award should be made on basis of the
    publication(s).  The statement should specify the merits and importance
    of the meta-analytic findings nominated for the award.
4.  Applications for awards should be postmarked to Awards Chair no later
    than January 1st, 1995.

    Please send completed applications, requests for more information
(including complete set of evaluation criteria used by committee) to
either:

Mike Allen                      Ray Preiss
Department of Communication     Department of Speech Communication and Theatre
Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee     Univ of Puget Sound
Milwaukee, WI 53201             Tacoma, WA 98416

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            Call for Papers: Language, Play and Performance
       Submitted by: Brenda Danet <msdanet@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>

    This is a Call For Papers for a special issue of the new _Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication_, on LANGUAGE, PLAY, AND PERFORMANCE.
There is a surprising return to playful, expressive "orality" in digital
writing, especially in synchronous modes like Internet Relay Chat and
Muds or MOOs, but even in ordinary email, list discussion groups, Usenet
newsgroups, etc.  People play with typography and orthography, with
their identities (nicknames, role-playing), with language, and with
cultural content, from real-world experience to fantasy, folklore, the
comics, and films.  Aspects of "performance" traditionally associated
with genres of face-to-face communication such as storytelling,
joke-telling, verbal dueling, etc., are flourishing on the Net.  We find
not only unscripted improvisational performance, but even instances of
scripted performance.

    This special issue of _JCMC_ will gather papers which engage in
ethnographic description and interpretive analysis of playful phenomena.
Appropriate topics may include (1) digital playfulness as a postmodern
phenomenon; (2) flaming as "performance;" (3) nicknames on IRC, personas
on MUDs and MOOs; (4) improvisation in real-world theater vs. the Net;
(4) Net culture and the norms and practices of essayist literacy.
Papers may focus on a single mode of CMC, or compare two or more.

    _JCMC_ is a multimedia electronic, peer-reviewed journal, and is
edited by Margaret McLaughlin, Annenberg School of Communication,
University of Southern California, and Sheizaf Rafaeli, School of
Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and offers
exciting new possibilities for scholarly publication.  Articles may
include color graphics, photographs, video, sound, etc.  The deadline
for submissions is February 15, 1995.  For further information, write
to:

Brenda Danet, Guest Editor of the special issue
Dept. of Communication and Journalism
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus
Jerusalem, Israel 91905
Email: msdanet@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il

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             How to Cancel a Comserve Hotline Subscription

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