On 3/29/07, Margie Borschke <margieborschke@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Further, since the Internet is ultimately a 'pop' medium....
At the risk of using a silly Internet phrase in an inappropriate forum: O rly? "Considerably" a pop medium I could understand and almost agree with. But "ultimately" a pop medium? Interesting. I feel as if I'm missing a piece of the puzzle. Can you (or someone else) please direct me to further reading that discusses this viewpoint? Without having read such material or been exposed to this line of argument before, my initial thoughts are to rebel against this assertion. I grant that the Internet has evolved immensely since its days as an experimental network created by academics but funded by the US military but to state that it's ultimately a pop medium seems to be a stretch. In fact, I imagine there are significant, perhaps impossible-to-overcome, methodological hurdles for one who would attempt to decide or measure what the Internet "is [for]." Kevin