Activities

• Current
• I was interviewed by Paco Xander Nathan in the cyberlaw edition of the Fringeware Review.
• I wrote an opinion piece called "You be the Girl" for The Site, a Ziff-Davis Television program on MSNBC. It appeared on March 17, 1997.
• My paper entitled "Virtual Rape" appears in a special issue of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
• My lastest chapter, "Punishing the Persona: Correctional Strategies for the Virtual Offender" in Steven G. Jones, Virtual Culture: Communication and Identity in Cyberspace is expected from Sage, Ltd. by May 1997. Text available upon request.
• The Journal of New Political Science. I'm writing an article summarizing my research on cybergovernance.
• EFF-Austin is an electronic civil liberties or "cyberlibities" organization inspired by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In September 1996, I joined the board of directors.
• Honoria in Ciberspazio, the "first opera in cyberspace." I'm a co-producer, cybertheorist, librettist, and fundraiser.
• Recent

• Honoria in Ciberspazio, the "first opera in cyberspace." I was the general manager for the webcast performance from the ACTLAB booth at the SXSW Multimedia Festival in Austin on March 9, 1997.
• ABC Radio program "Late Night Live" with Philip Adams. Nationally syndicated in Australia, it aired in Sydney on February 27, 1997 at 10pm local time.
• Lecture on "Cybergovernance," Visiting Speaker Series 1997, Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and the Postgraduate Arts Research Centre, University of Sydney, Australia, February 25, 1997, 11am-1pm. MacRae Lecture Theatre, SE Corner, Main Quandrangle.
• Lecture on "Theory and Design of Virtual Communities," Multimedia Design Program, TAFE College, Perth, Australia, February 20, 1997, 10am.
• Keynote presentation, First International Conference on Creative Collaboration in Virtual Communities 1997, February 14-15, Key Centre of Design Computing, University of Sydney, Australia.
• HotWired. Jon Lebkowsky's Electronic Frontiers Forum, January 16, 1997, 6PM Pacific. I was interviewed about "governing cyberspace." Here is some poster-like artwork from the event.
• "Inside the Internet" radio program on KOOP-FM 91.7, Austin, Texas. Three 30-minute interviews about my research on cybergovernance, net.rape, virtual punishment, cyberpain, love, sex, and death in virtual reality. Aired on Nov 20, 27, and Dec 4, 1996 at 4:30pm Central Time. Stay tuned for the RealAudio versions.
• Cybermind Conference, 29th November - 1st December 1996, hosted by the School of Design, Curtin Technical University, Perth, Western Australia. I was an invited speaker and did a performance on cyberpain and a talk on cybergovernance. Although I did these "live," they were simulcast into the conference MOO, CU-SeeMe, and RealAudio. The links are to the MOO logs.
• Key Centre of Design Computing, University of Sydney, Australia, November 29, 1996. I did a performance called "How to build community in virtual reality."
• First International Conference on Virtual Reality, Valencia, Spain, November 4-8, 1996. I did my first performance! It was on Cyberpain: When shared realities aren't.
• Chance, a philosophical rave and summit meeting between artists and philosophers, chaosophists and croupiers, mathematicians and mucicians at Whiskey Pete's Casino in the Nevada Desert, November 8-10, 1996. This was an official ACTlab field trip.
• Cyber Rights '96, Houston, September 20 and Austin, September 21. I was the moderator and emcee.
• 5CYBERCONF: Fifth International Conference on Cyberspace, June 6-9th, 1996. I was invited.
• Portal Information Network. I was badge #4. Now I'm just a shareholder.
• The Portal SIGs
• Some links to my old site. Some links to my new site. Here are some academically-related links.

The Academy

• Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab)
• Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Willard Uncapher, Troy Witlock, Knut Graf, Tamara Ford, Among others . . .
• UT Government Department
• The University of Texas at Austin
• San Jose State University
• The California State University
• The Association for Support of Graduate Students

Worlds

• Cybertown
• WebChat
• SpeakEasy Cafe
• Internet Roundtable Society
• Worlds, Inc.
• Internet Town Hall
• Magellan's Last Stand

Research

Telecommunications Policy and Law

• Richard MacKinnon'sThoughts on Clipper and Mike Godwin's response in Computer Underground Digest
• Cyberspace-Law for Non-Lawyers, presented by the Cyberspace Law Institute, Social Science Eletronic Publishing, and Counsel Connect
• High Technology Law Journal
• CyberLaw World Wide
• Government, Law and Society
• InteractiveAge

Cybermind, the anthropology of an online community of social scientists and normal people

• Cybermind Hypermail Archive
• Alan Sondheim's Internet Text
• Cybermind Conference, 29th November - 1st December 1996, hosted by the School of Design, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

Computer-Mediated Communication and Cyber-Culture