This is the first of two messages. For some reason the first post did not go up. Citing online sources.
Give your best effort to provide the reader with a guide to where to find it. And for Internet stuff, the date accessed (or should it be the date posted to the Web, if avai[l]able?)
This is a great example of a 'renversement' brought about by new relations of mediation and distribution. The date produced (which very often may not be known) or the date read? It seems this is a significant difference in the authority of the text (and this 'authority' of the text is marked by its citation in scholarship). It foregrounds the context of the production of the citation while rendering the general 'context' or general historical (given) media background less relevant in an understanding of the governance in knowledge that applies to this field. Scholarship of Internet, ethically and legally, must cite both the date of production of digital files (where known - and if not known this merely indicates the place of further productive scholarship - Internet hermenuetics?) and the date of consumption. The outcome is an institutionalisation of a subjective/objective collective scholarship. The same method can be applied to conventional (scriptural economy) scholarship. Lachlan Brown -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://...