11 Feb
2004
11 Feb
'04
1:41 p.m.
D.Slater@lse.ac.uk 11/02/04 11:54 AM >>>
Hello thread -
I've snipped all of the following quotes for sanity's sake. As a general watcher, ethnographer and folklorist I agree entirely with the deleted text... But on a different note, I'm intrigued by the greeting that Don has used "Hello thread." One of the aspects on online communication I'm fascinated by (and this is pertinent) is the way in which we implicitly characterise the various media through speech behaviour. I've not come across "Hello thread" so I'm wondering if it has a history and also what it may imply (if anything) for the spatiality of 'threads'. Indeed I wonder if 'thread' as a concept exists for younger wired (in the broadest term) users. Bruce