[Air-L] reformatting internet studies

[Barry Wellman]

well, I did do some subtle editing, so pls double check

But mostly, I hate looong sentences.

:)


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On Fri, 22 May 2015, Charles Ess wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 12:26:05 +0200
> From: Charles Ess <charles.ess at gmail.com>
> To: Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
> Cc: Charles Ess <cmess at drury.edu>, aoir list <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: reformatting internet studies
> 
> Barry and colleagues,
> a belated but hearty thanks for this - with your permission, will take this
> on board as I update and expand on the lecture that lead to my first effort
> at a definition, with all due recognition and grateful acknowledgment, of
> course.
> And ditto on the hi to the ICA folk, etc.
>
> again, many thanks,
> - charles
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> This is what Charles Ess wrote:
>>
>> Drawing on disciplines throughout the natural sciences, social sciences,
>> and the humanities, Internet Studies explores Internet-facilitated human
>> (and machine) communication with characteristic (but not exclusive) focus
>> on how identity, agency, relationship, community, and power interact with
>> the affordances of Internet-based communication technologies, often with a
>> careful view towards larger ethical, social, political, cultural, economic,
>> legal, and other human contexts. Internet Studies further includes
>> meta-theoretical development and refinement of various research
>> methodologies; specific attention to the ethical challenges and possible
>> resolutions to these challenges that arise in the course of such research;
>> and the histories of the Internet, including web history as a domain in its
>> own right.
>>
>> Without commenting much on its validity (first glance seems pretty good),
>> I would like to rewrite in shorter sentences and some simplifying
>>
>> Internet Studies describes and analyzes internet-facilitated human and
>> machine communication with a characteristic (but not exclusive) focus on
>> the affordances of internet-based communication and information
>> technologies. It draws on disciplines throughout the social sciences,
>> humanities, and the natural sciences. Internet Studies often takes a
>> careful view of ethical, social, historical, political, cultural, economic,
>> legal and other human contexts, and it also includes germane theoretical
>> and methodological developments.
>>
>> That's a straight rewrite, but I wonder why "Internet" when Mobile and
>> Things are becoming important. Should it be rewritten as Digital Media
>> Studies?
>>
>> Just my .02 for the day
>>
>> and hi to the ICA folks. Wish I could be there.
>>
>>
>>   Barry Wellman
>>  _______________________________________________________________________
>>   FRSC                 INSNA Founder               University of Toronto
>>   http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman           twitter: @barrywellman
>>   NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System.  Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman
>>   MIT Press            http://amzn.to/zXZg39        Print $14  Kindle $9
>>   _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>