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The tools of online community: the first five years of the trAce online writing centre

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C&C '05: Proceedings of the 5th conference on Creativity & cognition

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1056224.1056235

Published: 12 April 2005 Publication History

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The trAce Writing and Technology Research Project grew out of a small research project called CyberWriting that established in 1995 in the Department of English Media Studies at Nottingham Trent University. It rapidly made close links with arts organisations in Australia and America and operated almost exclusively on the internet, researching information about internet-based writing resources of all kinds including fiction, poetry, hypertexts, cyberculture theory, conferences, journals, and webzines. In May 1996 trAce launched its own website and quickly became a popular and useful resource for the dissemination of information about writers and writing on the net. In 1997 it received a substantial grant from the Arts Council of England Lottery Fund and has continued to grow to the present day. This paper gives an account of the first five years of trAce, 1995-2000, and looks to the future from the vantage point of 2005.

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Thomas, S. Correspondence, The Women's Press, London, 1992; Overlook Press, New York, 1993.

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From the application document.

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Mills, S. ed. Freebase http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame/freebase/free2/base.html

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White, T., Deep Immersion http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/deep/

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White, T., Deep Immersion http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/deep/thenarrator/indexnarrator.html

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de Kerckhove, D. 'Network Art and Virtual Communities', Parallel, Australia, 6 November 1995, http://www.va.com.au/parallel/x2/journal/derrick_dk/ddk.html

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Kidnews. http://www.kidnews.com/

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trAce/Alt-X Hypertext Competition 1998 http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/hypertext/

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The Noon Quilt http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/quilt/

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The First trAce Writers' Conference 1998 http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/eastm/conf.htm

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A trial software, now obsolete. A detailed account of this trial appeared in Cybersociology Magazine, Issue 4. http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/press/soc.htm January 1999.

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However, I am not sure now whether many more advances have been made in providing accessible live chat interfaces and discussion boards.

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Thomas, S. "Early Engagements of Writers with Online Media" Creativity & Cognition 3, 1999 Intersections and Collaborations: Art, Music, Technology and Science An ACM SIGCHI International Conference October 11-13th, University of Loughborough UK 1999.

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Figures taken from report to ACE on Year 1 of the project, 1997-98.

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Final report submitted to the Arts Council 2000.

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Thomas, S. 2004, Hello World: travels in virtuality, Raw Nerve Books, York, p.6.

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Coughlan TJohnson PBryan-Kinns NGross MJohnson HOx JWakkary R(2009)Understanding productive, structural and longitudinal interactions in the design of tools for creative activitiesProceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition10.1145/1640233.1640258(155-164)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1640233.1640258
Coughlan TJohnson P(2006)Interaction in creative tasksProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1124772.1124854(531-540)Online publication date: 22-Apr-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1124772.1124854

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The tools of online community: the first five years of the trAce online writing centre
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods

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Coughlan TJohnson PBryan-Kinns NGross MJohnson HOx JWakkary R(2009)Understanding productive, structural and longitudinal interactions in the design of tools for creative activitiesProceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition10.1145/1640233.1640258(155-164)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1640233.1640258
Coughlan TJohnson P(2006)Interaction in creative tasksProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1124772.1124854(531-540)Online publication date: 22-Apr-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1124772.1124854

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