What about a communicational environment (with men and machines (net)working "together" - or almost - in it)!? I´ve been trying to work with this concept since my PhD and I think that it still goes good in these "Web 2.0 times"! IMHO too! Adilson Cabral ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Whyte" <whyte.james@yahoo.com> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] is Internet a '"source" or a "medium"? - ignorant'squestion
In my humble opinion!
X is the sum of all "technologies" that make up the Internet X is a medium Y is the sum of all activities conducted using X Y is not X Y is source Y has boundaries that begin at the edge of the human sensorium and is bounded by X Y is the sum of all domains that are socially derived and applied to the "use" of X
For my usage:
X is the Internet - a medium Y is social space, cyberspace, net space, as you will - a "source" of information and derived meaning
Both represent an ontological commitment with sanctioned inferences, as this thread suggests.
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