[Air-l] Statistics Canada - General Social Survey: The Internet andthe way we spend our time

[Julie Cohen]

In a forthcoming paper in the Columbia Law Review, I argue that the 
conceptualization of the Internet as a heterotopian "other space" that 
is widespread within the legal and policy literature works all sorts of 
mischief.  This study seems to be a classic example of that process at 
work:  It presumes that if one is "on the Internet" one is somewhere 
else, not "here."  To that extent it diverts attention from more useful 
inquiry into how ICTs/networked communications 
technologies/whatever-you-want-to-call-them* change processes that 
remain social.

(Paper is at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=898260 
if anyone cares...)

Julie

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