Good post, Matt! Maybe I can quote you in my thesis? I am researching this right now and I don't have a great deal to say on it at the moment, BUT, here's something helpful to read: Michael Peters, (Ed) 1999. After the disciplines. Sorry I don't have the full cite as haven't got the Ennotes file open here. This book helped me a great deal to understand the tensions/opportunities even though it is written re: cultural studies. Internet studies will continue to have 'border disputes' with cultural studies, new media studies, and most recently, cyberculture studies. I had started a paper on how to distinguish cyberspace from the WWW., and luckily Phil Agre showed up in Coffs Harbour for Ausweb 2K1 and told me to drop it. And I did. So I don't know what to say about cyberculture studies. Timothy Luke, who writes in the above book, has a key chapter from the view point of political economy, slightly different from what Matt is saying, what is produced? and who benefits? type of discussion which was also helpful to me. Hope to meet up with a few AoIR's in Milwaukee at the Society for Social Studies of Science, esp. Anne and Paul Wouters if you are reading this! See you soon! Denise ===== "it's easier to use your mouse than your brain" Denise Rall, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & PhD student, School of Education, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/research/deniserall/index.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/