[Air-l] Citing Online resources 1/2

[Lachlan Brown]

This is the first of two messages. For some reason the first post did not go up.

Citing online sources. 

>Give your best effort to provide the reader with a guide to where to find 
it. 
And for Internet stuff, the date accessed (or should it be the date posted 
>to the Web, if avai[l]able?) 

This is a great example of a 'renversement' 
brought about by new relations of mediation 
and distribution. 

The date produced (which very often may not 
be known) or the date read? It 
seems this is a significant difference in 
the authority of the text (and this 'authority' of the text is marked by 
its citation in scholarship). It foregrounds 
the context of the production of the citation 
while rendering the general 'context' or general 
historical (given) media background less relevant 
in an understanding of the governance in knowledge that applies to this field. 

Scholarship of Internet, ethically and legally, must cite both the date 
of production of digital files (where known - and if not known 
this merely indicates the place of further productive scholarship - Internet hermenuetics?) and the date of consumption. 
The outcome is an institutionalisation of 
a subjective/objective collective 
scholarship. The same method can be applied 
to conventional (scriptural economy) 
scholarship. 

Lachlan Brown 

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