Re: [Air-l] Taxonomy of Content on the Internet

Matthew Allen wrote:

I wonder if the problem is the word content itself (which has too many, contested uses).

Firstly, on a technological basis might I suggest we separate "channel media" (print, radio, TV, film, videos, nonnetworked games) vs "environmental media" (telephone, CB radio). ...

I just ran across this quote which I thought encapsulated the issue nicely: "As Hirsch and Silverstone (1992) argue, information technology poses unique challenges because it is both a set of artifacts to be consumed as well as a medium within which social relations are conducted." (from Nafus and Tracey "Mobile Phone and Concepts of Personhood" in Katz & Aarkhus Perpetual Contact, p.208)