Mark Warschauer schrieb:
Yes, CMC is losing steam to "online communication."
It seems to me that ICT is itself losing steam to "digital technologies" or "digital media." What do you all think? mark
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.
i think that ICT is a well-established term and hence shall and will be further used, but it is a vague term because also a letter or a conversation is an ICT, but not a digital ICT. hence i think digital technologies grasps an important aspect, but is not suited. for me it is important that ICTs are not just a medium of co-operation, but digital networked systems that enable cognition (information), communication, and (importantly) co-operation. hence i would speak of digital networked CCC-T, but i don't think inventing such new terms makes any sense - let's just stick to ICTs because it is well-established. christian -- -- _____________________________ Univ.Ass. Dr. Christian Fuchs Assistant Professor for Internet and Society ICT&S Center - Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.at University of Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg Austria christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at Phone +43 662 8044 4823 Fax +43 662 6389 4800 Information-Society-Technology: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at http://www.icts.uni-salzburg.at/fuchs/ Managing Editor of tripleC - peer reviewed open access online journal for the foundations of information science: http://triplec.uti.at Forthcoming BOOK: Fuchs, Christian (2008) Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge.