19.239 which ACM SIG?

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 06:42:47 +0100

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         Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:39:36 +0100
         From: robert delius royar <r.royar_at_morehead-st.edu>
         Subject: Which ACM SIG to join?

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 (07:45 +0100 UTC) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of...:

> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:34:30 +0100
> From: Pat Galloway <galloway_at_ischool.utexas.edu>
> >
> I have suspected for many years that Francois was a Glass Bead Game
> Player; now we can all confess. Here is something that gives me the
> pleasure of surprise, computer wizards courting emergence:
> http://tagsonomy.com/
>
> Pat Galloway
> School of Information
> University of Texas-Austin
>
>

And earlier

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 (07:39 +0100 UTC) Humanist Discussion Group (by way of...:

> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:32:23 +0100
> From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
> Subject: history of personal computing
>
> Those interested in the history of computing will appreciate the
> keynote address by Gordon Bell, "Toward a history of (personal)
> workstations", the paper by Stuart Card and Thomas Moran, "User
> Technology: From Pointing to Pondering" and others in the ACM
> Conference on the History of Personal Workstations (1986), including
> those by Licklider and Englebart. The collection is in the ACM
> Digital Library, www.acm.org/dl/, and in print under ISBN 0-89791-176-8.
>
> Yours,
> WM
>

My question is which of the ACM SIGs would be most likely to focus (more
than would other SIGs) on the arguments raised in the essay at
http://tagsonomy.com/ ? I am considering SIGWEB and SIGART.

-- 
Dr. Robert Delius Royar <r.royar_at_morehead-st.edu>
Associate Professor of English, Morehead State University
                      Making meaning one message at a time.
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