Cybermind

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Cybermind is an Internet mailing list devoted to "the philosophy and psychology of cyberspace." It was co-founded by Alan Sondheim and Michael Current in mid-1994 to explore, exemplify and discuss multiple aspects of cyberspace, both from theoretical and experiential perspectives. The list was born in the split of the spoon collective lists from the Thinknet group, over issues of free speech and appropriate philosophical expression. Early membership involved much overlap with the Futureculture List. In more recent years discussions have become more general, but the list still has members from its founding period.

Michael Current died shortly after the founding of the group.

List discussion has resulted in books, articles, conferences, more than one academic thesis, a group novel, and a strong ongoing community. Cybermind itself has been the subject of academic research, including a Doctoral dissertation by Jon Marshall at the University of Sydney. Some writings about the List, and by List members, are listed on the Web Site in the References section.

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'The Second Cybermind Web Page'

Argyle, Katie "Life After Death", in Rob Shields ed. Cultures of Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies. Sage, London 1996.

Cubbison, Laurie "What does it Mean to Write from the Body", Women and Language v20.n1, 1997, pp31-5.

Kiley, Dean "John John and Di Die Live on the Internet: Cyberbullying on Academic Mailing Lists", Mesh: a Journal of Experimental Media Arts, 13, 1999/2000 http://experimenta.org/mesh/mesh13/articles/johnjohn.pdf.

Marshall, Jonathan Paul Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication and Control, Peter Lang, NY, 2007

Marshall, Jonathan "Categories, Gender and Online Community", E-Learning, 3(2), 2006. http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/3/issue3_2.asp#10

Marshall, Jonathan "The Online Body Breaks Out? Asence, Ghosts, Cyborgs, Gender, Polarity and Politics", Fibreculture Journal, Issue 3, 2005. http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue3/issue3_marshall.html

Marshall, Jonathan "Governance, Structure and Existence: Authenticity, Rhetoric, Race and Gender on an Internet Mailing List", Proceedings of The Australian Electronic Governance Conference 2004, Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne. http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/egovernance/papers/21_Marshall.pdf

Marshall, Jonathan "The Sexual Life of Cyber-Savants”, The Australian Journal of Anthropology 14(2), 2003: 229-248.

Marshall, Jonathan (2001) "Cyberspace or Cybertopos: The creation of online space", Social Analysis 45(1) 2001: 81-102.

Mauss, F.E. "We Were Online", Perspectives of New Music, Vol.43/44; (2/1), 2005, pp. 314-337.

Sondheim, Alan, ed New Observations: Cultures of Cyberspace, Vol.120, 1999.

Sondheim, Alan, ed. Being Online: Net Subjectivity, Lusitania, Vol.8, NY 1996.

Unpublished Theses:

Hoberman, David Body, Text and Presence on the Internet, Honours Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Tufts University,1996.

Ruane, Deirdre Citizens of Cyberia: Explorations of Self and Society on the Internet, Study submitted in part fulfilment of the requirement for the award of Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Studies at Dublin City University, August 1997