[Air-l] we need a new word?
Lauren Squires
squires at virginia.edu
Sat Mar 19 08:23:30 PST 2005
I am definitely looking forward to this discussion. I've
rather liked "CMC" but you're right Barry, no one wants to
have to explain that acronym - it's such a workout. But I
think you have to specify the breadth of applications you
want the term to cover - I like "CTs"/"ICTs", but to me
that also includes phones/cell phones, which if you're
strictly talking about internet/online media you'll have
to qualify yet again: "internet/online CTs." Explaining
the CTs/ICTs acronym is also a bit cumbersome. [Though
this seems the be the case with all of the basic
descriptive terms - "electronic," "technology,"
"communication," etc. Start putting any of them together
and you get a mouth/screenful. Not that this has been a
problem for scholarship before...e.g., whoever coined
"PoMo" was a genius...] I also realize the lines between
such technologies are blurry-blurring, which makes this
task really difficult. But if you're talking about the
internet(s), I'm inclined to work "online" into it
somehow, at the risk of invoking a dubious
"online-offline" distinction.
LS
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:45:48 -0500
jeremy hunsinger <jhuns at vt.edu> wrote:
>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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