[Air-l] Internet -- Source or Medium?

[James Whyte]

The work of Beriers-Lee was a generative technology that allowed for the interactive potential of the underlying Internet technology. His goal was to allow scientists not connected by propinquity, to communicate. i.e form a social network using the technology.
   
  Nothing is lost in scholarship by acurrately allowing the separability of techhnology from its use. In my opinion, binding them together creates the potential for confusion. 
   
  The bigger story to be told is the infinite variety of socially determined uses. In effect the advances in the technology simply expands the spectrum of uses. This spectrum seems to be only bound by very human creativity. Cyberspace is the house; the Internet is the hammer. I have found no evidence that AOIR is about the hammer.
   
   
   
   
   
  

William Bain <willronb at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Richard Parent wrote "So, does this internet/web distinction still hold, or have we moved
onto some new paradigm?"

On that particular point, it seems to be again a question of part/whole and to depend on which or how many protocols are involved. But it makes me wonder about web versus Web. And in passing maybe I could note that I've used as subject line the abbreviated form for this thread, slightly changed from the original one. A rose, possibly, by any other name........

Best, Will






William Bain
PhD Student
Comparative Literature
Department of Spanish Philology
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

---------------------------------
It's here! Your new message!
Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar.
_______________________________________________
The air-l at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

Join the Association of Internet Researchers: 
http://www.aoir.org/


       
---------------------------------
Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate
in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.