In a forthcoming paper in the Columbia Law Review, I argue that the conceptualization of the Internet as a heterotopian "other space" that is widespread within the legal and policy literature works all sorts of mischief. This study seems to be a classic example of that process at work: It presumes that if one is "on the Internet" one is somewhere else, not "here." To that extent it diverts attention from more useful inquiry into how ICTs/networked communications technologies/whatever-you-want-to-call-them* change processes that remain social. (Paper is at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=898260 if anyone cares...) Julie -- Julie E. Cohen Professor of Law Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Ave., NW Washington, DC 20001 V 202-662-9871 F 202-662-9410 jec@law.georgetown.edu http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/jec/