[Air-l] RE: [Air-l]International reactions to The death of chat?

Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof) TRKluver at ntu.edu.sg
Wed Sep 24 18:40:05 PDT 2003


In Singapore, this story was given front page treatment, with large
headlines. In fact, the Straits Times puts this forward as the biggest
story of the day (Thursday). If you check in the next few hours, it will
probably still be up: http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/

The treatment is the standard one, that it is about porn and spam, but
implies hidden commercial decisions also.  The paper also gives it a
secondary story, in the Home section:
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,211353,00.html?



Randolph Kluver
School of Communication and Information
Nanyang Technological University
31 Nanyang Link
Singapore, 637718
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Fax (65) 6792-4329
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Jones [mailto:sjones at uic.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:57 AM
> To: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] The death of chat?
> 
> 
> Given the international membership on this list I'd be very 
> interested in hearing reactions to MSN's announcement from outside 
> the U.S. The news stories I heard about it on the radio in the U.S. 
> emphasized spam and porn as being the reasons for the closing. Is 
> that the reporting elsewhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sj
> 
> At 12:04 PM -0400 9/24/03, Karim R. Lakhani wrote:
> >I think this means the web based chat rooms and not IM or real time
> >chat service.
> >
> >J Sternberg wrote:
> >
> >>With Internet Relay Chat flourishing worldwide since its creation
> >>in 1988, as well as the ongoing popularity of AOL's Instant 
> >>Messenger, it seems to me that chat won't be dying out any time 
> >>soon. Although I don't know of any definitive statistics, my 
> >>impression is that compared to systems such as IRC and AIM, MSN 
> >>chat has been just a drop in the bucket.
> >>
> >>Janet Sternberg, Ph.D.
> >>Assistant Professor
> >>Department of Communication and Media Studies
> >>Fordham University
> >>
> >>
> >>Lois Ann Scheidt wrote:
> >>
> >>>  MSN has announced that it will be closing or 
> significantly changing 
> >>>its chatrooms worldwide, effective October 14.  The 
> announcement can 
> >>>be found at 
> >>>http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=40329
> >>>
> >>>Lois Ann Scheidt MPA MIS SPHR CCP
> >>>Doctoral Student
> >>>School of Library and Information Science
> >>>Indiana University
> >>>Bloomington IN USA
> >>>http://www.loisscheidt.com
> >>>
> >>>
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