[mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Denise N. Rall
"This thesis uses "the small i-internet" to express a growing set of networked technologies that work through several infrastructures: the internet, mobile telephony, multi-user networked digital games, and upcoming interactive digital television. These networked technologies, often called the 'new media' or media ecologies provide linkages to a rich set of theoretical perspectives that connect audiences, communicative media, and the subsequent development of local and global policies."
Where does the Internet end and everything else begin? Part of how the Internet is defined depends on why you ask. I am a communications attorney. As such, it is important to know whether one is on the Internet, a mobile telephone network, or digital television transmission medium. The laws with regard to each is entirely different. I regularly object to Internet specific laws. I dont understand "Internet gambling" laws; if the problem is gambling, why not have a gambling law (attack the application problem at the application layer), regardless of what network it is done over. Nevertheless, Congress just passed an Internet Gambling law - therefore, I must know when I am on the Internet, and when I am on a 3G phone network, and when I am on a street corner in Brooklyn - the laws that apply (thanks congress) are different. B =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= Cybertelecom :: Federal Internet Law & Policy www.cybertelecom.org Washington hOCKEY Wiki wockey.stikipad.com News Tryouts Clubs Leagues Pickup Rinks Info