[Air-l] A definition of the internet

[Sue Cranmer]

Hi Sam

I've found the following (non-techie) description useful:

Hargittai and DiMaggio: the internet is ‘not a fixed object, but rather a
protean family of technologies and services’ (2001: 5) through which ‘users’
can, in theory, gain ‘access’ to the web, chat rooms, instant messaging,
email and so on. 

Sue

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I know this is a trivial question! Does anyone have a really good definition
of the Internet.
   
  The only ones I have speaks only to the technology.
   
  Sam

 		
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