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

[radhika gajjala]

the question also is are we "revamping" and if that is indeed what we are 
doing, and just adding on a prefix of cyber -

Are we examining the specificities and complexities of what happens when 
its cyber-something....

or just doing makeshift terms and theorizing so we can move with our 
academic merit sheets.

my 2 cents.

r

At 07:49 AM 1/31/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >Some of the responses made me think though. Isn't it perhaps a slippery
>explanatory strategy for internet research to revamp old concepts by
>attaching the prefixes cyber-, virtual, digital, or e- to them?
>I know these were not dominating the suggestions, but they kept popping up,
>mixing with concepts like interactivity.
>And I could be totally wrong, so feel free to vivisect me.<
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>first thought - don't we continually revamp old concepts anyway  - the way
>in which we experience things is constantly changing?
>second thoughts - adding cyber, digital etc to old concepts and applying
>them in new ways makes the internet familiar, and allows us to experience
>things (and explain them) in terms of our everyday lives
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>just two thoughts from a social anthropologist who is also a
>cyberethnographer
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>denise
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>Denise Maia Carter,
>School of Comparative and Applied Social Science,
>University of Hull, UK
>http://www.denisecarter.net
>denisecarter at denisecarter.net
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