Some of the responses made me think though. Isn't it perhaps a slippery explanatory strategy for internet research to revamp old concepts by attaching the prefixes cyber-, virtual, digital, or e- to them? I know these were not dominating the suggestions, but they kept popping up, mixing with concepts like interactivity. And I could be totally wrong, so feel free to vivisect me.<
first thought - don't we continually revamp old concepts anyway - the way in which we experience things is constantly changing? second thoughts - adding cyber, digital etc to old concepts and applying them in new ways makes the internet familiar, and allows us to experience things (and explain them) in terms of our everyday lives just two thoughts from a social anthropologist who is also a cyberethnographer denise Denise Maia Carter, School of Comparative and Applied Social Science, University of Hull, UK http://www.denisecarter.net denisecarter@denisecarter.net