Sigal, Another angle to online graffiti might be the "wifitti" phenomenon. Not strickly web-based, but basically, it allows cell users to text to a particular number which then displays the texts on a screen in a public place. Here's a nice overview: http://future.iftf.org/2006/03/digital_graffit.html --Amanda Amanda Lenhart Pew Internet & American Life Project alenhart@pewinternet.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Mark D. Johns Sent: Thu 4/20/2006 10:58 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Online graffiti Ariel Foina wrote:
I believe that the most acurate real manifestation of this "online grafitti"the the website defacement. Otherwise, any communal webpage infrastructure will fit the graffiti Idea...
I'm currently studying facebook.com as a student phenomenon. One of the features is that each participant has a "wall" as part of their profile page on which his/her "friends" can write things. The wall metaphor certainly suggests graffiti. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/