[Air-l] questioning authority

[Kevin Guidry]

On 3/29/07, Margie Borschke <margieborschke at iinet.net.au> wrote:
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> Further,  since the Internet is ultimately a 'pop' medium....

   At the risk of using a silly Internet phrase in an inappropriate
forum: O rly?
   "Considerably" a pop medium I could understand and almost agree
with.  But "ultimately" a pop medium?  Interesting.  I feel as if I'm
missing a piece of the puzzle.  Can you (or someone else) please
direct me to further reading that discusses this viewpoint?
   Without having read such material or been exposed to this line of
argument before, my initial thoughts are to rebel against this
assertion.  I grant that the Internet has evolved immensely since its
days as an experimental network created by academics but funded by the
US military but to state that it's ultimately a pop medium seems to be
a stretch.  In fact, I imagine there are significant, perhaps
impossible-to-overcome, methodological hurdles for one who would
attempt to decide or measure what the Internet "is [for]."


Kevin