In a study of the distance maintained by avatars in a Palace chat environment, the authors found three interpersonal distance zones, including a "Danger Zone."

    Many of the maps on the Internet not only promote certain ideological messages but also are often poor in terms of cartographic design, with many containing serious ecological fallacies.

    How do new multi-media, communicative tools and environments mediate communicative acts? How do visually-mediated communicative acts themselves mediate other activities such as online economic transactions, the workings of ideology, learning and perception?