"... it could be argued that our linguistic, social, and institutional habit--the world as we know it--models this model world" (Unsworth, 1993).

Introduction

This chapter introduces two environments that we are building to facilitate online information- exchange and collaboration: a HyperText-Markup-Language (HTML)-based web-site for a city newspaper and a Multi-User Domain (MUD) for professional communicators, researchers, teachers, and students. Importantly, both environments and their affects on user participation and engagement are placed within a larger framework of rhetorical theory for we strongly believe, as Heim (1993) has asserted, that "Cyberspace is Platonism as a working product" (99).

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Brad's & Elizabeth's Stuff:

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