tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-228186652011-04-22T11:59:29.446+08:00A series of short, scholarly commentaries that relate to the meaning, purpose and analysis of the Internet within the broad field of Internet Studies. Written by Associate Professor Matthew Allen, Curtin University of Technology, Perth Australia.matt_netstudieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17274482747184909948noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22818665.post-1143679879496908812006-03-30T08:47:00.000+08:002006-03-30T08:53:28.993+08:00

Recently I was invited to post a blog entry to Robin Hamman's excellent cybersoc.com site in which I discussed Internet research - what it was, where it is going. My conclusion was:"Perhaps it is in this direction that Internet research has the most to offer. As is clear from recent works such as Hassan’s Media, Politics and the Network Society, as well as new works by Manuel Castells (such as

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A fragment.I've been puzzling recently over Niklas Luhmann's The Reality of Mass Media (published in English in 2000, Polity Press, but dating from lectures given in 1994). While not wishing to engage closely with the complex sociological theorising on which this short volume is based (theorising that to me - an true novice in sociology - seems conerned mostly with arguments between sociologists

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In 2000-2001, the Republic of South Africa (RSA) decided to seek control over the domain name southafrica.com that was, at that stage, owned by Virtual Countries Inc., a Seattle-based company (see South Africa gets territorial over ".com" domain, News.com, 21 Nov 2001). A somewhat similar case has now emerged in relation to Switzerland, with a recent report that:The Federal Chancellery said it

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The Internet is, in the main, understood as a globalising technology, whose existence and rapid development has come to pass because of certain trends in globalisation, and whose presence in contemporary social and political life further reinforces globalisation. While globalisation existed prior to the birth of the Internet, and the Internet developed without explicit reference to globalisation,

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I just read Bogard's The Simulation of Surveillance (Cambridge: CUP, 1996); it demonstrates some interesting qualities of social and cultural theorising from that time, especially when utilising virtual reality, informatics, and the like as the raw material from which to craft theoretical texts.Bogard's work, drawing heavily on Baudrillard and Foucault with nods to Virilio and Deleuze, presents

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This blog is an attempt by me to find a mode of publication and communication somewhere between the thing I find easiest (rambling on in person to anyone who will listen) and the thing I find hardest (disciplined, coherent academic writing). So, for the most part, the blog fulfils that first requirement for successful blogging - something personal and intimately bound to the self. I am trusting

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