I've tried to review all the excellent and helpful contributions before throwing in my 2 cents - apologies if I overlooked something. While it may be implicit in the references to ethnographic approaches to online research, I haven't seen CULTURE as a candidate - the meaning of which, of course, is wildly ambiguous and multiple. But it seems clear to me - and a growing number of others (e.g., Gitte Stald and Thomas Tufte, _Global Encounters: Media and Cultural Transformation_ [Luton: Luton University Press, 2002]) - that precisely because the Web has something of a global reach (this reach has to be carefully qualified, both in terms of available infrastructure _and_ access as mediated by culture, not computers - smile), it becomes the vehicle of and site for a vast range of cross-cultural and intercultural communications that require careful attention to both culture and communication in encompassing senses. Relatedly (because cultures entail moral values and ethical principles), as the very proud chair of the AoIR ethics working committee - I'd lose my job if I didn't mention ETHICS as a candidate as well? Narrowly, Internet research ethics - broadly: what the are ethics of cross-cultural / intercultural communication as mediated by the Web? Hope this is helpful - and good luck! cheers, Charles Ess Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23
From: "swiss@uiowa" <thomas-swiss@uiowa.edu> Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org Date: 30 Jan 2003 01:26:12 -0600 To: <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] key terms/concepts for understanding the web
Hi, all,
Am considering a new edition of a book I edited a few years ago for NYU Press: UNSPUN. The book looked at key terms/concepts/tropes in re: the web. In chapters written specifically for this text, the authors explored the key terms and concepts -- gender, community, and so on -- that help shape our understanding of the World Wide Web and its wide-ranging influence on contemporary culture. Each chapter highlighted for students both continuities and conflicts in the meanings of the Web by focusing on the language surrounding key terms. In doing so, the book asked: what are we talking about when we talk about the Web?
Below: the TOC. What I'm wondering about is this: what key terms do you all see as missing from this list? Clearly there are many. But developing such a list would be helpful to me, and I'd appreciate your feedback on what terms should be added, along with essays of about 20 pages on the terms?
thanks for yr help. Contact me at <thomas-swiss@uiowa.edu>
best, Thom
------------------------------------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Unspun: The Web, Language, and Society
1. Community Jodi Dean 2. Identity Jay Bolter 3. Gender Cynthia Fuchs 4. Race Lisa Nakamura 5. Political Economy Vincent Mosco 6. Cyberspace Rob Shields 7. Governance Timothy Luke 8. Ideology John Sloop 9. Performance Dawn Dietrich
10. Hypertext Matthew Kirschenbaum 11. Narrative Joseph Tabbi 12. Authorship Russell Potter 13. Multimedia Sean Cubitt
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