Re: An Internet without Space
I have been following this discussion. I started using the Internet in 1988 before there was a World Wide Web. At that time, I was working for a government agency that had networked offices and dial-up modem capabilities that allowed me to connect to one of the few servers available at that time. This was at a point in time when servers were few-and-far-between and tended to reside on the campuses of major universities or federal government offices in the U.S. I have always appreciated the fact that President Clinton and Vice-President Gore promoted the idea of the Internet and World Wide Web being an information superhighway. I continue to maintain the viewpoint that the Internet and WWW are an information superhighway to this day. I have also been using relational databases since 1988, primarily for research purposes. I also tend to think of the Internet and WWW as being just a very large relational database. The various Internet search engines (e.g. Yahoo, Google) are the query menus that allow users to sort the database and locate information using search words or phrases. Gail -------------------------------------------- Gail D. Taylor, Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Human Resource Education "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change." Charles Darwin
Dear Air'ers - One way to pursue this logically is simply to divide (as I have done, below) this 'space' into three different domains. My argument is that the interactions in these three kinds of space are actually different as the users, the interface, and the computing environments are actually different, hence influencing the communication factors. Rall, Denise N. (2000). A functional analysis of the Internet, the World Wide Web and Cyberspace: Introducing some disciplinary protocols for online education and research. unpublished ms. This is somewhat similar to the previous proposals of David Silver and others re: the 'stages of the internet'. What I find most difficult about all of these conversations is the assumption that we are talking about one space - the Internet - rather than the myriad of spaces that it has become. Some of the net's activities are highly documented statistically, some are not, some of the net's activities (see Turkle) remains entirely within the users - a strictly subjective feeling no matter what the actual 'space' one inhabits looks like. I.e, to defeat the proposal of the above 'domains' some of the Net's activities that are most 'real' are the interior feelings of those who participate in a virtual community - whether within a text-based Well or Moo or within the interactive game parks of today. Cheers, Denise ===== "What Narcissism Means to Me" (poetry) Tony Hoaglund (2003). Denise N. Rall, PhD student, School of EnvironSciMgmt, Southern Cross Uni, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
Does anyone know if some particular tool, application or software for studying literature exist? Many thanks max
Elijah, Are you able to tell the group what this tool, application or software is? :) Kylie --------------------------------------- Kylie J. Veale | Brisbane, Australia GradDipInvEnv, MInetStds(Design) Provisional PhD candidate email: kylie@veale.com.au www: http://www.veale.com.au/phd icq: #27938257 msn: kyliej@hotmail.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of elijah wright Sent: Friday, 13 February 2004 3:51 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] info
Does anyone know if some particular tool, application or software for studying literature exist?
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Max, Any/all human technology interfaces are tools. you read an ebook, you're using an tool, app, software for studying lit. www reference sites. wikipedia. but an early app, back in ms-dos and big non-floppy disc days, was this word collation program. I used it in the 80s to index a book for a prof. What should have taken 100 hours took me 5 minutes and some sorting. someone else i know (LLL--you know too) used it to get lists of every word faulkner used and how often. Jillana Enteen jillana@jillana.net http://jillana.net On Feb 12, 2004, at 5:50 AM, maxburani wrote:
Does anyone know if some particular tool, application or software for studying literature exist?
Many thanks
max
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Hi Max, Vol 18 No 2 of _Literary and Linguistic Computing_ was a special edition on 'reconceiving text analysis'; the journal as a whole might be useful to you and is available online. Best, Rowin
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Does anyone know if some particular tool, application or software for studying literature exist?
Many thanks
max
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Rowin Cross