I don't think there are any ontological commitments per se, if you want to construct them, that is fine, but i see diverse usages in technical and non-technical spheres, and I do not see any basis for the claim that there is any frame present for usage beyond fashion or common use. Specifically, other than style guidelines in some domains and presses, I don't think there is any basis to the position you are taking below, but if you can marshal evidence that outside of style-guide determined systems, there is a technical/non-technical split, I would love to see it. I participate in both and I see people migrating back and forth without issue. On Mar 31, 2007, at 3:55 PM, James Whyte wrote:
First Monday will not allow anything but the cap I species. (factoid)
I have gone back in the archives for discussions on the definition of the Internet. This is a rich source of information. I would recommend it to anyone.
There are two school of thought exposed. 1. the Internet is rigidly defined as "Network of networks bound by the TCP/IP protocols 2. the above but including all socio/psychological/humanities based activities that are conducted using the above. i.e. a generic application
I assert, both represent ontological commitments and the resulting sanctioned inferences. Form 1 - represents the cap "I" argument and Form 2 represents the lower case.
This elaboration has importance because it frames, in a generative way, the nature of scholarship that is considered to be Internet Research and therefor sanctioned.
In form 1, research is confined to technological domains. If form 2 qualitative approaches are given greater lattitude and sactions appear be less restrictive.
Combining two threads Wired could be folkloric knowledge and therefor not within scholarly sanctions or domains; as opposes to knowledge derived from elite sources. The same is true of Wikipedia vs Britannica, blogs etc.
Jeremy asserts that there are many definitions of the "Internet" and I would agree. Each of those definitions form a ontological commitment and each has its scope of acceptable inferences (sanctioned)
The archives clearly exposes these boundary disputes. Referencing yet a third thread, these boundary disputes are a manifestation of "naturally occuring conflicts." One could argue that the conflicts represent the application of sanctions derived from an ontology.
In my opinion you were not off topic.
James
William Bain <willronb@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi folks. Just "tuppencely" and hopefully not off topic I note that Wikipedia seems to prefer capitalizing "the Internet" and the noun alone in terms like !"Internet protocols". Somehow I have a feeling the lower case forms will win out in the end, though, as seems often to happen with things like brand names. Very interesting discussion!
Best wishes,
Will
William Bain PhD Student Comparative Literature Department of Spanish Philology Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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