[Air-l] we need a new word?

[jeremy hunsinger]

I'm inclined to call these communications technologies, just that 
ICT's, sometimes when I am a bit adventurous, I might venture social 
media, sociable media or network technologies.  but.. they certainly 
aren't new media anymore, though the genre of new media still exists.  
e-media would just be electronic media, which is more or less all media 
in some respects.
On Mar 19, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Barry Wellman wrote:

> I was speaking at a seminar for non-techies at MIT yesterday (not a
> contradiction, as these were community development folks from across 
> the
> USofA).
>
> And I found myself saying -- and my PPTs reading -- "Internet" -- but 
> then
> verbally qualifying by saying, "well I really don't mean the 
> traditional
> email Internet, but also IM, chat, lists, video, etc." (add your 
> favorite
> including Usenet and BBS).
>
> What to call it? "Computer mediated communication" is a mouthful, 
> jargony
> and chews up PPT space. "New media" is too indistinct and PoMo: 
> moreover,
> is email "new media" any more? We should focus on the affordances of
> the media and not on the newness.
>
> So what to call it. My first thought at the breakfast table was 
> "e-media",
> but I am open to other suggestions. I also am putting it on the list,
> because I am confident that others have had similar dilemmas, and that 
> it
> would be best if we had a standard word.
>
>  Barry
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