[Air-l] ICE-T again

[Denise N. Rall]

Dear Barry -

Yes, not enthusiastic. Mattthew Allen came up with
NICT (network/networked ICT) and I think he got the
same reaction. ICT is good enough, CMC is still
available but seems to be losing steam. E-commerce is
the term I would use to single out mechanisms of
exchange where they need to be appropriately
differentiated.

While writing my thesis, I actually dug down and did a
genres of computing, because they do stem from
different programming algorithms. 

High level:
collecting & processing (from tabulation, US census)
conveying
scheduling (Sabre)
analyzing

second level:
collecting >indexing and reporting (COBOL; Fortran)
conveying >analyzing> [scientific
applications]predicting & modeling

third level, takes off from second level:
conveying > performing
predicting & modeling > performing
performing & conveying> 1) virtual identity
performing & modeling> 2)virtual community
Ah this doesn't make any sense written up like this.
Barry, check website in another week and I will stick
the table up there.

My point is, these genres are derived from computer
operations that then branch out discretely into common
applications that can be shown to have a shared root
algorithm. CMC, ICT, ICE-T is just a way to classify a
set of activities without necessarily capturing the
root activity shared thoughout the system.

I'm sure this doesn't help but I still think it's
important to consider deeper levels than the surface
activity - and see what's driving the formation of
said activities and how they transpire over the
network.

Cheers, Denise














Denise N. Rall, PhD
Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA 
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Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK
http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html


 
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