[Air-L] Some ideas for Ess disccusion on the fourth age of Internet Studies? what glues Internet Studies together?

[Charles Ess]

Hi Elodie,
many thanks indeed!
All three points are clearly relevant and helpful.  FWIW, in the run-up to
this definition, I refer specifically to discussions of embodiment, the
blurring of the 1990s' emphasis on strong distinctions between online and
offline - and it is clear that the internet of things will only amplify, if
not more or less eliminate such a distinction.
The cultural differences point is equally spot-on.  It is emphasized here
less than it should be - thanks for that.  For that, as you know, "culture"
(however we many manage to define or approximate it) has been the focus of
the Cultural Attitudes towards Technology (CATaC) conference series that
began in 1998 (and where Steve Jones, among other things, pointed out that
we should take matters of embodiment on board ...).  So far as I can tell,
"the culture question" is less outrageous and heretical as it appeared to
be in 1998 - i.e., as Barry Wellman points out regarding Internet Studies
more broadly, all of this has diffused more and more into mainstream /
diverse disciplines.  But not enough yet, in my view - so again, thanks for
this as well.
Ditto for the pointer towards the mobility r/evolution.

again, many thanks!
- charles

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Elodie Crespel <elodie.crespel at gmail.com>
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> Thank you Charles for the heuristic definition of Internet studies. I would
> like to add 3 points that I found important in the current discussion.
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> The point regarding the relationship between the online-offline contexts
> can be further developed with the introduction of concepts such as
> embodiment and the Internet of things.
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> Also, we need to add an international view on how the Internet is define
> and use.
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2948923/Do-think-Facebook-internet-Two-thirds-users-millions-don-t-know-web-log-accounts.html
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> Finally, is the Internet the same when used on a computer or cell phone?
> How the introduction of mobile devices change the way we perceive the
> Internet? This final point can bring back some technical issues in the
> discussion, and it has a link to the first point regarding the
> online-offline relationship.
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> Best
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> Elodie Crespel
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