[Air-l] ICE-T again

[Christian Fuchs]

Mark Warschauer schrieb:
> Yes, CMC is losing steam to "online communication."
>
> It seems to me that ICT is itself losing steam to "digital 
> technologies" or "digital media."  What do you all think?
> mark
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
>   
i think that ICT is a well-established term and hence shall and will be 
further used, but it is a vague term because also
a letter or a conversation is an ICT, but not a digital ICT.

hence i think digital technologies grasps an important aspect, but is 
not suited.

for me it is important that ICTs are not just a medium of co-operation, 
but digital networked systems that enable cognition (information), 
communication, and (importantly) co-operation.

hence i would speak of digital networked CCC-T, but i don't think 
inventing such new terms makes any sense - let's just stick to ICTs 
because it is well-established.

christian

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