Re: [Air-l] key terms/concepts for understanding the web

i think a whole new vocabulary is opening up within the sociology/anthropology field - and i spend hours pondering on terms like:- cyberplace cybercommunity cyberethnography reality place and space how about explaining how you 'meet' ppl maybe also 'nicknames' need to be in there too my glossary contains words like - avatar, browser, cookie, emoticon, hacker, hardware, software, html, jpeg, virus, protocol, pixel, RAM, ROM, search engine, shortcut, surf etc denise Denise Maia Carter, School of Comparative and Applied Social Science, University of Hull, UK http://www.denisecarter.net denisecarter@denisecarter.net