Oops there goes the thread RE: [Air-l] Re: first post (An Internet Without Space)

[Bruce Mason]

>>> D.Slater at lse.ac.uk 11/02/04 11:54 AM >>>

> Hello thread -

I've snipped all of the following quotes for sanity's sake. As a general
watcher, ethnographer and folklorist I agree entirely with the deleted text...
But on a different note, I'm intrigued by the greeting that Don has used "Hello
thread." One of the aspects on online communication I'm fascinated by (and this
is pertinent) is the way in which we implicitly characterise the various media
through speech behaviour. I've not come across "Hello thread" so I'm wondering
if it has a history and also what it may imply (if anything) for the spatiality
of 'threads'. Indeed I wonder if 'thread' as a concept exists for younger wired
(in the broadest term) users.

Bruce