Dear colleagues Some of you may remember that a couple of years ago we had an exchange on this list on the conceptual lexicon of Internet Studies, see archived thread http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2006-July/010274.html Well, I'm very glad to report that a descendant of the draft I was working on at the time dealing with this question has now been published as Postill, J. 2008 Localizing the internet beyond communities and networks, New Media and Society 10 (3), 413-431 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444808089416 Many thanks to those of you who participated in that interesting discussion and I welcome comments or queries about this piece via email or blogged at http://johnpostill.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/anthill-cobwebs-and-internet-stu... John Dr John Postill Senior Lecturer in Media Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield S11 8UZ United Kingdom j.postill@shu.ac.uk http://johnpostill.wordpress.com/