Recommended Reading

"Top Hits" for CSCW

Since much of the research, I'm interested comes from a few locations, sometimes I've included cites from those locations which review that work rather than the best articles from the location.

Groupware by Robert Johansen

The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities Helen B. Schwartzman

CSCW Proceedings

ACM's Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Occurred in 1986, 1988, 1990 and 1992. CSCW'94 will occur in October in North Carolina.

University of Arizona

Nunamaker, J. F., Dennis, Alan, R., Valacich, Joseph S., Vogel, Douglas R. and George, Joey F. 1991. Electronic meeting systems to support group work. Communications of the ACM. July 1991, 34(7), pp. 40-61.

University of Minnesota

Dickson, Gary W.; Limayem, Moez; Partridge, Joo Eng Lee; and DeSanctis, Gerardine L. In progress. Facilitating computer supported meetings: a cumulative analysis in a multiple criteria task environment. February 1994. [Unpublished manuscript; check with authors for newer version.]

On getting through the academic process

Getting What You Came For by Robert L. Peters

This book contains the most accurate description of the Ph.D. process I've seen. It also contains helpful advice.

The Now Habit by Neil Fiore

The sub-title is A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play. According to the back of the book, the author "is a licensed psychologist on staff at the University of California, Berkeley, who maintains private counseling and consulting practices." Several Ph.D. students I know have found this book helpful.

Writing the Doctoral Dissertation by Gordon B. Davis and Clyde A. Parker

Short. Contains information about things like how to test out topics and statistics on length (in pages and time) for dissertations in various fields.

The Compleat Academic: A Practical Guide for the Beginning Social Scientist
edited by Mark P. Zanna and John M. Darley

Primarily aimed at junior faculty, it also contains much practical advice for graduate students. There are chapters on teaching, research, writing proposals and articles, advising and politics. Chapter 9 is "An incomplete guide to working as a nonacademic researcher".

"Social" Reading

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

mysteries by "Ellis Peters"