[Air-L] Metaphors in Technology

[chodge5 at utk.edu]

RE: broadband, you might want to check out the Wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband
also Broadband Internet Access
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access

I think Broadband (particularly when referring to internet access) is used
in a less technical sense (or perhaps by less technical people) in
discussions such as those involving Digital Divide (See for example the
NTIA's "A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age"
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/index.html). While it has a very
specific technical definition, broadband also carries connotations of
privilege.

-c


On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Steve Cavrak wrote:

> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 07:51:52 -0400
> From: Steve Cavrak <Steve.Cavrak at Uvm.Edu>
> Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Metaphors in Technology
> 
> 
> On Jun 30, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Gordon Joly wrote:
> 
> > At 15:37 -0400 28/6/08, Kevin Guidry wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Gordon Carlson <gordycarlson at gmail.com 
> >> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>> broadband
> >>
> >>   Not a metaphor.  Typically misused these days but still a technical
> >> term with a specific, defined meaning.
> 
> Isn't that how metaphors are formed ? 
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Chris Hodge
University of Tennessee