Hi Frank, You may also want to look at: Author Standage, Tom. Title The Victorian Internet : the remarkable story of the telegraph and the nineteenth century's on-line pioneers / Tom Standage. Imprint New York : Walker and Co., 1998. A very quick and informative read. It only deals with snail mail tangentially, but certainly looks at what happened between postal mail and the telegraph and the change in communication patterns and draws comparisons with the internet. IB

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frank.thomasftr@free.fr 11/14/2002 3:54:21 PM >>> Hi,

I start to think about the fact that ICTs are well embedded in our cultures of text and voice communications. SMS, for instance, is a very interesting sort of written speech. To understand email communication we have first to better understand postal letter exchanges. I am no cultural anthropologist so I have no immediate knowledge of that area of research. Would someone on the list be so kind to point me to a good start for reading, for books, articles, online texts, market research, I dont know what ... Thank you Frank ---------------------------- Frank Thomas FTR Internet Research 321, boulevard de la Boissière 93110 Rosny-sous-Bois France tél. 0033.1.48.94.36.90 _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l Irene Berkowitz Coordinator for Curricular Publications and Systems Office of the Vice Provost Temple University tel. 215-204-7596 fax. 215-204 3175 berkowitz@mail.temple.edu