[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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