Oops there goes the thread RE: [Air-l] Re: first post (An Internet Without Space)
D.Slater@lse.ac.uk 11/02/04 11:54 AM >>>
Hello thread -
I've snipped all of the following quotes for sanity's sake. As a general watcher, ethnographer and folklorist I agree entirely with the deleted text... But on a different note, I'm intrigued by the greeting that Don has used "Hello thread." One of the aspects on online communication I'm fascinated by (and this is pertinent) is the way in which we implicitly characterise the various media through speech behaviour. I've not come across "Hello thread" so I'm wondering if it has a history and also what it may imply (if anything) for the spatiality of 'threads'. Indeed I wonder if 'thread' as a concept exists for younger wired (in the broadest term) users. Bruce
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD "; 20 GOTO 10 Bruce Mason wrote:
D.Slater@lse.ac.uk 11/02/04 11:54 AM >>>
Hello thread - <snip> But on a different note, I'm intrigued by the greeting that Don has used "Hello thread." One of the aspects on online communication I'm fascinated by (and this is pertinent) is the way in which we implicitly characterise the various media through speech behaviour. I've not come across "Hello thread" so I'm wondering if it has a history and also what it may imply (if anything) for the spatiality of 'threads'. Indeed I wonder if 'thread' as a concept exists for younger wired (in the broadest term) users.
Well, I'm constantly amazed that many of my students, who I now suddenly realize are not just a couple of years but a decade younger than me (what happened?), know little more about the Internet than IM, e-mail, and have rather limited experience in surfing the web. They don't know Usenet, associate mailinglists with spam, and visit web-based forums that don't do threading. Of course, it doesn't help that there isn't a good Dutch translation for the word "thread". Frank. -- Barst [NL] http://fragment.nl/barst/ Fragments [EN] http://fragment.nl/
Hi Frank!
Well, I'm constantly amazed that many of my students, who I now suddenly realize are not just a couple of years but a decade younger than me (what happened?), know little more about the Internet than IM, e-mail, and have rather limited experience in surfing the web. They don't know Usenet,
Maybe, all this is simply a sign, that the Internet is getting a part of life - I cannot recall how it was when other media was "new", but I can imagine, that the approach towards a totally new medium is quite different from the approach to an existing - and we are all getting older... :) What I am trying to say, is that the difference you and others have stated about the approach towards the Internet and all included or herefrom evolved (forgive my English) communication-methods of yourself and your students may have something to do with the acceptance of the Internet as the "hype" VS. "just another medium"... BTW: God bless the C64! (...and my pity to those, who used an Atari - not to speak about the Spectrum) :) cu sam liban
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