beth kolko

Selected Publications

Journal articles and full proceedings papers

• Kim, S,  Farber, S., Kolko, B.E., Kim, W., Ellsbury, K., Greer, T.  “Patterns of Faculty and Student Participation in On-Line Case Discussions of Palliative Care Scenarios.” Family Medicine. Forthcoming.
• Wei, C., Kolko, B.E. (2005). “Resistance to Globalization: Language and Internet Diffusion Patterns in Uzbekistan.” The New Review of Multimedia and Hypermedia 11:2. pp. 205-220.
• Wei, C, Kolko, B.E. (2005). “Studying Mobile Phone Use in Context: Cultural, Political, and Economic Dimensions of Mobile Phone Use.” Proceedings from the Annual IEEE IPCC Conference. July 2005. (4690 words)
• Burgstahler, S., Jirikowic, T., Kolko, B.E., & Eliot, M. (2004). “Software Accessibility, Usability Testing and Individuals with Disabilities.” Information Technology and Disabilities 10:2. np. (5629 words). http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd/itdv10n2/burghsta.htm.
• Thayer, A., Kolko, B.E. (2004). “Localization of Digital Games: The Process of Blending for the Global Games Market.” Technical Communication 51:4, 477-488.
• Kolko, B.E., Wei, C, and J.H. Spyridakis. (2003). “Internet Use in Uzbekistan: Developing a Methodology for Tracking Information Technology Implementation Success.” Information Technologies and International Development 1:2, 1-19.
• Taylor, T.L., Kolko, B.E. (2003). “Boundary Spaces: Majestic and the Uncertain Status of Knowledge, Community and Self in a Digital Age.” Information, Communication & Society 6:4, 497-522.
• Kolko. B.E., Thayer, A. (2003). “Games as Technological Entry Point: A Case Study of Uzbekistan.” Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association. Utrecht University. 19 pages.
• Spyridakis, J.H., Wei, C., and Kolko, B.E. (2003).“The Relationship of Culture and Information-Seeking Behaviour: A Case Study in Central Asia.” Adjunct Proceedings of HCI International 2003, Crete University Press, 167–168.
• Haselkorn, M.P., Sauer, G., Turns, J., Illman, D.L., Tsutsui, M., Plumb, C., Williams, T., Kolko, B.E., and J.H. Spyridakis. (2003). “Expanding the Scope of Examples from the Department of Technical Communication at the University of Washington,” Technical Communication 50:2, 174-191.
• Kim, S., Kolko, B.E., Greer, T. (2002). “Problem-Solving in Web-based Problem-Based Learning: Third-Year Medical Students' Participation in End-of-Life Care Virtual Clinic,” Computers in Human Behavior 18:6, 761-772.
• Kolko, B.E. (2002). “International IT Implementation Projects: Policy and Cultural Considerations.” Proceedings from the Annual IEEE IPCC Conference, Portland, OR, September 2002. 352-359.
• Kolko, B.E., Whang, L. (2002). “Assessing Reliability and Credibility for Online Engineering Resources.” American Society for Engineering Educators Annual Conference Proceedings. 7 pp; session 1520.
• Kolko, B. E. (2001). “Discursive Citizenship: The Body Politic in Cyberspace.” The International Journal of Virtual Reality 5:1, 1-8.
• Kolko, B.E. (1999). “Representing Bodies in Virtual Space: The Rhetoric of Avatar Design.” The Information  Society 15:3, 177-186.
• Kolko, B.E. (1998). “Intellectual Property in Synchronous and Collaborative Virtual Space.” Computers and Composition 15:2, 163-183.
• Palmquist, M., Hochman, W., Kolko, B.E., Golson, E., Alexander, J., Barnes, L.,  Kiefer, K. (1997). “Hypertext Reflections: Exploring the Rhetoric, Poetics, and Pragmatics of Hypertext.” Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 2.2. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/2.2/features/reflections/bridge.html.
• Kolko, B.E. (1995). “Building a World With Words: The Narrative Reality of Virtual Communities.” Works and Days 13:1-2, 105-126.

Books and Editing

• Ed. Kolko, B.E. Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age.  Columbia University Press. New York. 2003.
• Kolko, B.E., Regan, A., and Romano, S. Writing in an Electronic World. Addison Wesley Longman: New York. 2001.
• Eds. Kolko, B.E., Nakamura, L., and Rodman, G. B.  Race in Cyberspace. Routledge: New York. 2000.

Refereed Book Chapters

• Kolko, B.E. (2003). “Introduction: The Reality of Virtuality.” Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age. Ed. Beth Kolko.  Columbia University Press: New York. 1-7.
• Kolko, B.E. (2000). “Intellectual Property in Synchronous and Collaborative Virtual Space.” Computers and Composition 15:2, 163-183 (1998). Reprinted in Cyberethics: Social and Moral Issues in the Computer Age, Eds. Baird, Ramsower, Rodenbaum. Prometheus Books: New York. 257-281.
• Kolko, B.E. (2000). "Cultural Studies In/And the Networked Writing Classroom." The Online Writing Classroom.  Ed. Michael Day, Susanmarie Harrington, and Rebecca Rickly. Hampton Press: Cresskill, NJ. 29-43.
• Haynes, C., Holmevik, J.R., Kolko, B.E., Vitanza, V. (2000). “MOOs, Cyberspace, Anarchitexture: Towards a New Threshold.” The Emerging CyberCulture: Literacy, Paradigm, and Paradox.  Ed. Stephanie Gibson and Ollie Oviedo. Hampton Press: Cresskill, NJ. 229-262.
• Kolko, B.E. (2000). “Erasing @race: Going White in the (Inter)Face.” Race in Cyberspace. Ed. Beth Kolko, Lisa Nakamura and Gilbert B. Rodman. Routledge: New York. 213-232.
• Kolko, B.E., Nakamura, N., Rodman, G.B. (2000). “Introduction.” Race in Cyberspace. Ed. Beth Kolko, Lisa Nakamura and Gil Rodman. Routledge: New York. 1-13.
• Kolko, B.E. and Reid Steere, E. (1998). “Dissolution and Fragmentation: Problems in Online Communities.” Cybersociety 2.0, Ed. Steven Jones. Sage Press: Thousand Oaks, CA. 212-229.
• Kolko, B.E. (1998). "Bodies in Place: Real Politics, Real Pedagogy, and Virtual Space."  High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs.  Ed. Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik.  University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor. 253-265.
• Kolko, B.E. (1998). "We Are Not Just (Electronic) Words: Learning the Literacies of Culture, Body, and Politics.” Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet.  Ed. Irene Ward and Todd Taylor.  Columbia University Press: New York. 61-78.