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

30 Jan 2003


      Accessibility
User Experience
Interactive Learning
The Semantic Web
Navigation
Copyright (related to your theme of Authorship)
E-participation (voting, referendums and other effects on political process)
Mass communication (health, e-government etc.)
Peer-to-Peer (related to your theme of Community, but also in the context 
of 'professional')
International governance
Digital divide

(terms such as Hypertext and Multimedia superceded)

Louise Ferguson
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"swiss@uiowa" wrote:
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Hi, all,
Am considering a new edition of a book I edited a few years ago for NYU
Press: UNSPUN.
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The book looked at key terms/concepts/tropes in re: the web.
In chapters written specifically for this text, the authors explored the
key terms and concepts -- gender, community, and so on -- that help shape
our understanding of the World Wide Web and its wide-ranging influence on
contemporary culture.
Each chapter highlighted for students both continuities and conflicts in
the meanings of the Web by focusing on the language surrounding key terms.
In doing so, the book  asked: what are we talking about when we talk about
the Web?
Below: the TOC. What I'm wondering about is this: what key terms do you
all see as missing from this list? Clearly there are many. But developing
such a list would be helpful to me, and I'd appreciate your feedback on what
terms should be added, along with essays of about 20 pages on the terms?
thanks for yr help. Contact me at <thomas-swiss@uiowa.edu>
best, Thom
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction:  Unspun: The Web, Language, and Society
1.  Community
        Jodi Dean
2.  Identity
        Jay Bolter
3.  Gender
        Cynthia Fuchs
4.  Race
            Lisa Nakamura
5.  Political Economy
        Vincent Mosco
6.  Cyberspace
        Rob Shields
7. Governance
        Timothy Luke
8.  Ideology
        John Sloop
9.  Performance
        Dawn Dietrich
10.  Hypertext
        Matthew Kirschenbaum
11. Narrative
        Joseph Tabbi
12. Authorship
        Russell Potter
13.  Multimedia
        Sean Cubitt
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