[Air-l] Internet as medium with different sub-media or channels?

[Steve Jones]

Jeffrey Sconce's "Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy  
to Television" is an interesting read along these lines, too.

Sj

On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Alex Halavais wrote:

> Ulla:
>> A fifth meaning for the word "medium" is "person who can talk to  
>> ghosts and otherwise
>> dead people." This meaning doesn't really pertain to what most of  
>> us are studying...
>
> In "Speaking into the Air," John Durham Peters takes this
> idea--angelic communication and communion with the dead--as the
> starting point for thinking about what we do when we (fail to)
> communicate. If "real" communication is between embodied individuals,
> it seems that most of us study ghosts in some form.
>
> But I'm pretty sure that's not what your students mean :).
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