Well, she can't remember either -- it's been six years since we talked
about it. She thought it might have been by Herring.
I do know that the original conversation started during a discussion of
one of the Kiesler & Sproull studies of e-mail in organizations along
with the following paper:
Kiesler, Sara Jane Siegel, and Timothy W. McGuire, "Social Psychological
Aspects of Computer-Mediated Communication". American Psychologis,
39(10), 1984.
I think the Kiesler & Sproull paper is reprinted in
Computerization and controversy : value conflicts and social choices /
edited by Rob Kling. 2nd ed. San Diego : Academic Press, c1996.
or, if you are *really* interested in this topic, there is also
Connections : new ways of working in the networked organization /
Lee Sproull, Sara Kiesler. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1991.
Culture of the internet / edited by Sara Kiesler. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1996.
Oh, and let's not forget the Web:
http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/sds/faculty/kiesler.html
which unfortunately has nothing but more bibrefs. OTOH, Hotbot shows
several hundred reviews of the Connections book. And there is another
mention of Herring in
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/jan/ess3b.html
Hmmm, actually that article is about the very same topic we were
discussing:
Charles Ess. Philosophical Perspectives on Free Speech and CMC:
A Plea for Understanding--Beyond False Dilemmas on the Net.
In CMC Magazine, January 1, 1996.
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/jan/ess.html
which just happens to include a reference that we were looking for
Herring, S. (1996). Posting in a different voice: Gender and ethics.
In Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication
(pp. 115-45). Ed. C. Ess. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
I hope that helps,
....Roy