[Air-l] is Internet a '"source" or a "medium"? - ignorant'squestion

[Adilson Cabral]

What about a communicational environment (with men and machines (net)working 
"together" - or almost - in it)!?
I´ve been trying to work with this concept since my PhD and I think that it 
still goes good in these "Web 2.0 times"!

IMHO too!
Adilson Cabral


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Whyte" <whyte.james at yahoo.com>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] is Internet a '"source" or a "medium"? - 
ignorant'squestion


> In my humble opinion!
>
>  X is the sum of all "technologies" that make up the Internet
>  X is a medium
>  Y is the sum of all activities conducted using X
>    Y is not X
>  Y is source
>  Y has boundaries that begin at the edge of the human sensorium and is 
> bounded by X
>  Y is the sum of all domains that are socially derived and applied to the 
> "use" of X
>
>  For my usage:
>
>  X is the Internet - a medium
>  Y is social space, cyberspace, net space, as you will - a "source" of 
> information and derived meaning
>
>  Both represent an ontological commitment with sanctioned inferences, as 
> this thread suggests.
>
>
>
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