Dear Barry - Yes, not enthusiastic. Mattthew Allen came up with NICT (network/networked ICT) and I think he got the same reaction. ICT is good enough, CMC is still available but seems to be losing steam. E-commerce is the term I would use to single out mechanisms of exchange where they need to be appropriately differentiated. While writing my thesis, I actually dug down and did a genres of computing, because they do stem from different programming algorithms. High level: collecting & processing (from tabulation, US census) conveying scheduling (Sabre) analyzing second level: collecting >indexing and reporting (COBOL; Fortran) conveying >analyzing> [scientific applications]predicting & modeling third level, takes off from second level: conveying > performing predicting & modeling > performing performing & conveying> 1) virtual identity performing & modeling> 2)virtual community Ah this doesn't make any sense written up like this. Barry, check website in another week and I will stick the table up there. My point is, these genres are derived from computer operations that then branch out discretely into common applications that can be shown to have a shared root algorithm. CMC, ICT, ICE-T is just a way to classify a set of activities without necessarily capturing the root activity shared thoughout the system. I'm sure this doesn't help but I still think it's important to consider deeper levels than the surface activity - and see what's driving the formation of said activities and how they transpire over the network. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tues: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/ Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/