Dear AoIR folk, My apologies for forgetting to sign the posting below. It was from me, Ildiko Kaposi (for some reason the email address doesn't include my name). Cheers, Ildiko

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pphkai01@phd.ceu.hu 01/31/03 17:44 PM >>> Yes, probably this is a question we need to ask ourselves. The temptation to makeshift theorise and sell these ideas as new insight can be strong, and I've seen it done (not by AoIR members, of course :) Something for the ethical guidelines maybe?

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radhika@cyberdiva.org 01/31/03 12:24 PM >>> the question also is are we "revamping" and if that is indeed what we are doing, and just adding on a prefix of cyber -

Are we examining the specificities and complexities of what happens when its cyber-something.... or just doing makeshift terms and theorizing so we can move with our academic merit sheets. my 2 cents. r At 07:49 AM 1/31/2003 +0000, you wrote:

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Some of the responses made me think though. Isn't it perhaps a slippery explanatory strategy for internet research to revamp old concepts by attaching the prefixes cyber-, virtual, digital, or e- to them? I know these were not dominating the suggestions, but they kept popping up, mixing with concepts like interactivity. And I could be totally wrong, so feel free to vivisect me.<

first thought - don't we continually revamp old concepts anyway - the way in which we experience things is constantly changing? second thoughts - adding cyber, digital etc to old concepts and applying them in new ways makes the internet familiar, and allows us to experience things (and explain them) in terms of our everyday lives

just two thoughts from a social anthropologist who is also a cyberethnographer

denise

Denise Maia Carter, School of Comparative and Applied Social Science, University of Hull, UK http://www.denisecarter.net denisecarter@denisecarter.net

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