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

[Silke Force]

 William Bain wrote: 
Equally humbly seeking further information in relation to Bob Rehak's
very interesting contribution [snip] I'd like to comment that I see
nothing illogical (or technologically unsound?) about calling the
Internet a medium, which it seems to be, (and in a/some layered form).
But while "the 'hardware' is materially implicated in the medium's
*expressive* activity" does it follow that the hardware can be assigned
an *affective* activity?
   
  In the spirit of the seeker,
   
  William Bain, UAB, Barcelona
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Please forgive a relative newbie an impertinent question here. Would it
be fair to draw an analogy between the internet and the library? 
 
Silke Force
Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada