If you want to confuse people further, you could use "The Matrix," in John Quarterman's sense, but I'm afraid that's probably not the definition most audiences will be familiar with. I use "ICTs," but for those not acquainted with the term, it requires further clarification. For more general audiences, I like "The Net," which is arguably simply an abbreviation of the internet(s), but I think connotes the wider set of applications you are talking about. I also like "social computing" to talk about the narrower set of applications that are based in communication (never been a fan of "CMC"), but the term leads very quickly to the question of whether there is any computing that is not social. Alex On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:27:47 -0600, Ed Lamoureux <ell@bradley.edu> wrote:
I don't have one for "it." but I would like to note something that many of you know . . . just as a reminder.
Many of my (former and present) colleagues in Departments of Communication have taken to referring to their Radio/Video/Television areas as "electronic media."
Just as their work often overlaps with computationally based digitally enhanced production (new media); the name "electronic media" also overlaps. Yet, I suspect that inside 5 years, Communication Department-based academics in America will, for the most part, sub the term electronic media for "radio/television" fairly broadly.
So that one's probably not a good one for computer stuff.
Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Director, Multimedia Program and New Media Center Associate Professor, Speech Communication 1501 W. Bradley Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 309-677-2378 http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell http://gcc.bradley.edu/mm/
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