Cyberspace Report
The Cyberspace Report is a public affairs radio show aired on
KUCI,
88.9 FM in Irvine, California (Orange County, just south
of Los Angeles) every Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:00 PM.
The show explores social issues of computing using interview
and topic shows, with occasional opportunities for call-in questions.
The hosts for the Cyberspace Report are
Lisa Covi and
Jim Whitehead,
both graduate students in Information and Computer Science at the
University of California, Irvine. Lisa is in the Computers,
Organizations, Policy and Society (CORPS) research area, and is
actively researching issues of social interaction on the Internet.
Jim is in the Software research area, and is actively researching
issues surrounding the introduction of hypertext into software
development environments.
Lisa and Jim welcome your comments on the Cyberspace Report. We
can be reached at: covi@ics.uci.edu and ejw@ics.uci.edu
Available Shows
Shows are in Sun audio file format, 8-bit uncompressed, 8000 Hz, u-law (.au)
They can be listened to on Macintosh and Sun mosaic versions
for sure, and most likely on other hardware platforms as well.
Literary Hypertext
Mark Bernstein of Eastgate Systems discusses literary hypertext,
his hypertext authoring tool
StorySpace, and the literary hypertext
offered by
Eastgate Systems.
"We are all tied up in interlocking stories and painfully aware that
we are at the intersection of all sorts of stories and we don't know
when we're the star and when we are a role player, when we're the hero
and when we're the villain, and when we don't matter."
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First Part (4.5 Meg)
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Second Part (4.8 Meg)
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Third Part (3.2 Meg)
Post Modernism
Mark Poster, Professor of History and Information and Computer Science
at the University of California, Irvine discusses post modernism and
the Internet.
"The notion of post-modernity relates to what you're calling cyberspace
in the sense that it fits in with the general transformation of
cultures ... toward something like a mass culture through electronic
mediation."
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First Part (4.6 Meg)
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Second Part (3.8 Meg)
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Third Part (5.7 Meg)
Virtual Communities
Marc Smith, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Dept. of Sociology at
U.C.L.A. discusses his paper, "Voices From the Well" about virtual
communities on the Well BBS.
"It would be a mistake to say that in cyberspace you can't get hurt.
You can get be hurt in cyberspace, and in ways you might not imagine."
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First Part (4.4 Meg)
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Second Part (3.9 Meg)
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Third Part (1.9 Meg)
Municipal BBS
Keith A. Kurtz, Project Manager for PEN, an online bulletin
board system for the City of Santa Monica discusses this leading
edge system. Discover the many surprising ways PEN helps the City of Santa
Monica be more responsive to its citizens. Listen and find out
how PEN was used in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake!
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First Part (4.4 Meg)
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Second Part (4.4 Meg)
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Third Part (3.6 Meg)
Enabled Mail
Dr. Nathaniel Borenstein, a Member of the Technical Staff at Bellcore
discusses enabled mail and his latest project, the Electric Eclectic.
Listen for how his latest project helped sell Girl Scout Cookies!
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First Part (3.8 Meg)
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Second Part (3.7 Meg)
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Third Part (5.3 Meg)
Singapore
Professor John L. King from the University of California, Irvine discusses
the culture of Singapore and their approach to a national information
infrastructure. Is it pornography or plurality that most concerns
the Singapore government?
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First Part (3.8 Meg)
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Second Part (4.7 Meg)
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Third Part (4.8 Meg)
Online Romance
A first hand account of online romance by
`Pete', an avid role-playing game player on America Online.
Pete found that in the case of online romance, the line between
role-playing and real life is very blurry. Listen for what happened
when Pete met an online paramour for a steamy weekend...
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First Part (4.4 Meg)
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Second Part (4.6 Meg)
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Third Part (1.4 Meg)
What has happened in the aftermath of the interview?
We Welcome Your Ideas!
Have a good idea for a future episode of the Cyberspace Report? Let
us know!
FTP Access
The Cyberspace Report can be accessed via anonymous ftp to
liege.ics.uci.edu. The Cyberspace Report files are
located in directories under
pub/ejw.
KUCI 88.9 FM
KUCI Home Page
KUCI Schedule
Rights and Usage
Lisa Covi and Jim Whitehead reserve all rights to the
Cyberspace Report. The Cyberspace Report may be distributed for
not-for-profit purposes so long as we are informed of the usage.