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

[Bob Rehak]

Quoting "Mark D. Johns" <johnsmar at luther.edu>:

> elw at stderr.org wrote:
>> anybody else got a paradigm in mind that they think relates this stuff?

Siegfried Kracauer has one I'm fond of, if only for its brevity:

"Each medium has a specific nature which invites certain kinds of 
communications while obstructing others."

Nice if only because it suggests that mediums conceal and confuse as 
much as they transmit and make available; that mediums develop certain 
formal tendencies based on their material & organizational substrate; 
that it's possible to apprehend and enjoy a medium's operations in and 
of themselves, quite apart from the content they carry.

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Bob Rehak

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