A Jeanne Site
A Jeanne Site
California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest update: October 22, 1999
Curran or
Takata.
Trying on Narratives within the Security of a Virtual Academic Community
Review and Essay to Initiate Process Text on Narrative and Identity Part of Series on Learning and Identity by Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata Copyright October 1999. "Fair Use" encouraged.
Article in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday, October 17, 1999. "In Chat Room You Can Be NE1: Constructing a Teen-age self on line." by Camille Sweeney, at p. 66.
Relate this to trying on different narratives. the academic virtual community permits the trying on of scholarly selves and scholarly personae. Examples from Dear Habermas
Stan: "At p. 25 Pollock says: "Another reason women may be less violent is simply that it is not rational to be violent..." Violence is not rational. Once rational thinking is gone there is either fight or flight. Is she saying that women are more rational than men? Or that women in violent situations voluntarily become victims because know it is irrational to fight with someone stronger?"Jeanne: "Frankly, Stan, I'm not sure what she means. My interpretation of her statements on p.25 would be that by rational in this instance she