Exchanging goods, buying and selling is viewed as communication by Luhmann isn't it? Money as media, buying/selling as the act of communicating. (Would have to go back to the texts to figure out where he says this though.) Just because Luhmann said that, doesn't mean it isn't a real stretch of course, just happened to think of him when reading your email. Johanna Johanna Roering Sfb War Experience University of Tuebingen Germany On 7/5/07, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
A group of us have been studying Chapleau, northern Ontario. We have discovered that in addition to the I and the C of ICT, the folks there use the Internet more than urbanites to find out about -- and to order -- goods. Sorta like the Sears or the Eatons catalog of old that served rural areas. Some may even sell on eBay, etc -- we'll check on that this fall.
Altho you might argue that browsing the net for goods is "Information", it would be a real stretch to say that actually buying and selling goods is info (or comm). Hence, we propose the new acronym, ICE-T, for Information, Communication and Exchange Technologies.*
Before I/we go too far with this, what do you think?
*Not to be confused with the actor/rapper or the tilting German train, much less that heavily sweetened stuff I get in the US South. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE-T
PS: Happy Canada Day to all.
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