[Air-l] Web Science a Field of Study

[Sam Tilden]

elijah,
   
  This sounds like something that Lachlan Brown might have written. Are you serious or just trolling? Since you are the expert on "Trolling" how would you analyze your remarks?
   
  Pax Electronica,
   
  Sam

elw at stderr.org wrote:

I find this patently absurd.

Attempting to name something doesn't create a new field of study.

New paradigms are rooted in established fields. Sociologists, linguists, 
information scientists, and others are all doing groundbreaking work in 
just the area that TBL is "inventing".

This looks more like an attempt to grab publicity and credibility on the 
part of TBL and MIT. Embarassing, to be sure.

Incidentally, I don't see a whole lot of research from TBL these days, on 
*any* of the lists I participate in where people care about networks, the 
internet, or the web... or people's use of any of them.

--elijah
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