[Air-l] Origin of the term "Internet" ? - ontology revisited

Denise N. Rall denrall at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 2 18:30:03 PDT 2007


Ok, I'm sure everyone is over this thread.

But I do agree there's a purpose for the small-i
internet as opposed to the large I. Which BTW is based
on IP not TCP/IP - the transmission protocol is
something else, not necessarily linked to the Internet
(Purdue University was running an IP not TCP/IP
version in the late 1990's).

Here's how I use the small-i internet in my thesis:

"This thesis uses “the small i-internet” to express a
growing set of networked technologies that work
through several infrastructures: the internet, mobile
telephony, multi-user networked digital games, and
upcoming interactive digital television.  These
networked technologies, often called the ‘new media’
or media ecologies provide linkages to a rich set of
theoretical perspectives that connect audiences,
communicative media, and the subsequent development of
local and global policies."

Rall, D. N. 2007. "Locating four pathways to internet
scholarship." School of Enivronmental Science and
Management. Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW.
unpublished PhD thesis.

Cheers (no one cares but I'm almost a Dr.!) Denise



Denise N. Rall, PhD thesis, "Locating four pathways to 
internet scholarship" School of Env. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA 
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