Author bio
Michele Evard
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139-4307 (electronic mail: mevard@media.mit.edu). Ms. Evard is a Ph.D. candidate working with Seymour Papert at the MIT Media Lab. Her research focuses on children's interactions in on-line discussion groups. She has participated in on-line communities related to both personal and professional interests since 1984, when she began pursuing her bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science. She received her master's degree in computer science in 1992 from the University of Oregon. In 1994, she conducted a four-month study during which 126 fourth- and fifth-grade students used a Usenet-style bulletin board system within their school. Writing in their preferred languages, children asked and answered questions, stated their opinions, read news, wrote local and national news articles, created new discussion groups, and printed newsletters. Over the course of the project, students developed community standards, and many of them displayed a growing awareness of their audience. Ms. Evard is continuing to study these issues for her dissertation work.
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