[Air-l] Online graffiti
Mark D. Johns
johnsmar at luther.edu
Thu Apr 20 07:58:48 PDT 2006
Ariel Foina wrote:
> I believe that the most acurate real manifestation of this "online
> grafitti"the the website defacement. Otherwise, any communal webpage
> infrastructure will fit the graffiti Idea...
I'm currently studying facebook.com as a student phenomenon. One of the
features is that each participant has a "wall" as part of their profile
page on which his/her "friends" can write things. The wall metaphor
certainly suggests graffiti.
--
Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies
Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/
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