[Air-l] key terms/concepts for understanding the web

[Robert Luke]

This perhaps betrays my own bias, but what about learning?  There is a rather significant focus on the web as a locus of and for learning, lifelong learning, formal and informal education, etc.  This could perhaps be included in other aspects of your chapters...

I would also include accessibility, digital diversity and digitial divides as important concepts for understanding the potential impact(s) and in/exclusion of all things webbish. Accessibility in particular has expanded the meaning of the web exponentially.  "For people without disabilities,
technology makes things convenient, for people with disabilities, it makes things possible."

Robert

"swiss at uiowa" wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> Am considering a new edition of a book I edited a few years ago for NYU Press: UNSPUN.
> The book looked at key terms/concepts/tropes in re: the web.
> In chapters written specifically for this text, the authors explored the key terms and concepts -- gender, community, and so on -- that help shape our understanding of the World Wide Web and its wide-ranging influence on contemporary culture.
> Each chapter highlighted for students both continuities and conflicts in the meanings of the Web by focusing on the language surrounding key terms.  In doing so, the book  asked: what are we talking about when we talk about the Web?
>
> Below: the TOC. What I'm wondering about is this: what key terms do you all see as missing from this list? Clearly there are many. But developing such a list would be helpful to me, and I'd appreciate your feedback on what terms should be added, along with essays of about 20 pages on the terms?
>
> thanks for yr help. Contact me at <thomas-swiss at uiowa.edu>
>
> best, Thom
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> TABLE OF CONTENTS
>
> Introduction:  Unspun: The Web, Language, and Society
>
> 1.  Community
>         Jodi Dean
> 2.  Identity
>         Jay Bolter
> 3.  Gender
>         Cynthia Fuchs
> 4.  Race
>             Lisa Nakamura
> 5.  Political Economy
>         Vincent Mosco
> 6.  Cyberspace
>         Rob Shields
> 7. Governance
>         Timothy Luke
> 8.  Ideology
>         John Sloop
> 9.  Performance
>         Dawn Dietrich
>
> 10.  Hypertext
>         Matthew Kirschenbaum
> 11. Narrative
>         Joseph Tabbi
> 12. Authorship
>         Russell Potter
> 13.  Multimedia
>         Sean Cubitt
>
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