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

[Denise N. Rall]

--- "Christopher J. Richter" <crichter at hollins.edu>
wrote:

> media, as Anders suggests.  In fact, I would go so
> far as to say that the internet taken broadly
> shouldn't be considered as a medium at all, but a
> domain or infrastructure for various media.  But as

Thanks Christopher for stating the obvious. The
internet IS the infrastructure and other things happen
on it. The packet could care less. Its 'purpose in
life' is to get from point A to point B, preferably
without colliding with any other packet (if it does,
ethernet constraints tell it what to do). It carries
data not messages.  The messages, etc. are coded at
one end and decoded at the other end. The internet is
not a media! although I can see how it carries that
burden today. People are still confounding the
internet with the WWW. The web has expressive
elements, the internet does not.

A losing battle here, but that's me on record as a
former IT technologist.

Cheers, Denise



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