[Air-l] conceptual lexicon

[Denise N. Rall]

Dear AIR-ers -

A great discussion going here. I just came from the
Georgina Born (Emmanuel College, Cambridge University)
Masterclass at the Cultural Research Network,
University of Queensland. She has other dates to
follow in Australia. I highly recommend looking into
the CRN, lots of stuff going on there.

She uses the term media ecologies to describe her work
with the BBC.  That reminded me of information
ecologies as offered by Bonnie Nardi et al.

I am an ICT agnostic. I don't use it, but it doesn't
bother me when others use it. In my thesis I use
networked technologies.  Wimpy, but at least it's not
another acronym.  But I wasn't too happy with media
ecologies.  Yes, they grow, but ecology is actually
means the STUDY of ecologies. Not the systems
themselves although that distinction has faded in the
common parlance.

As I thought about it, I was happier with media
ecosystems.  The systemic can address issues of
infrastructure, political economies, and information
in a way that I think the term media ecology does not.

Ok, cheers,

Denise



Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis in revision, School of Environ. Science,
Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA
Tuesdays: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0427 245 497
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html
Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK
http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html

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