Innis, Harold, 5, 38, 41–2, 43n, 51, 70, 85,
98, 117
Institute for the Quantitative Study of
Society, 90
institutionally extended relations, 49
instrumental views of communication, xii,
18n, 20, 81n, 130, 132, 137, 138, 139–40,
202–3, 206
Integration, x–xiii, 12, 13, 15–17, 29, 35, 53,
55, 69, 75, 99, 119, 120n
broadcast, 3, 34, 35, 72, 86, 98, 148–9,
177, 206–10
community as practice and community
as recognition, 122, 174–7
levels of, x, 122, 148, 151–3, 153–60, 165,
166n, 222, 223n
network, 3, 8, 72, 98, 141, 149, 177
and ritual view of communication,
119, 122–3, 133–5, 140
social integration, 3–4, 6, 16, 21–2, 24–5,
31, 50, 52, 55, 83, 86, 118, 122–3, 132,
145, 148, 152–7, 159, 164, 168,
169–71, 173, 175, 182, 183, 206,
208, 210–11, 222
and sociality with mediums, 178–80
versus interaction, 15–17, 55, 122–66
Interaction, x–xiii, 8, 12, 14, 40, 49, 52, 76,
77–9, 84, 86, 90, 99, 114–16, 118, 175–6,
177, 178, 180, 185, 188, 195–9, 202–4,
206, 209–10, 219, 222, 224n, 225n
approach to media culture, xi, 164, 178
and broadcast, 52, 53, 73, 86–8, 106,
108, 110, 112–13
and democracy, 80–1
face-to-face, seeface-to-face interactions
world divided between the ‘interacting’
and ‘interacted’, 8
mediated, 15, 86, 115–16, 136–9, 145, 160
mediated quasi-, 136–7, 144–8, 160
para-social, 144, 148, 153, 166n
practice of, 77, 175
without reciprocity, 144–9, 161, 195,
211, 217
technologically extended, 76, 86, 94–5,
98, 137, 159, 222
and transmission view of
communication, xii, 15, 119, 164, 177
virtual interaction, 61–4, 79, 108,
200, 224n
without reciprocity, 149–51, 195, 205
interactivity, 9, 10, 12–13, 18n, 40,
53–54, 72, 75, 80, 82, 89, 94, 100,
114–15, 117, 195–7, 200, 203–6,
220, 222, 223n
activity versus passivity, 14, 15interactivity, cont.
and broadcast, ix, xi, 10, 12, 50, 84–6,
97–8, 100, 115, 122, 148
interactive society, 8
versus connectivity, 206
interface, 14, 60, 63, 64, 91, 187, 188, 223n
human-technical interface, 2, 180
Interface Culture, 223n
‘Internet and Society’ study, 90, 224n
Internet, ix–xiii, 2, 3–5, 7–17, 17n, 18n, 19n,
31, 36, 40, 42, 44–5, 55–7, 61, 63–4,
66–7, 72–3, 76–80, 81n, 82n, 83–90,
92–3, 95–104, 106, 108, 110, 113–15,
118, 120n, 121n, 122, 128, 132, 141–3,
145, 155, 157, 166n, 169, 175, 177, 183,
189, 190, 193, 201–4, 207, 209, 214, 219,
220–2, 223n, 224n
abstraction and, see abstraction
anarchy of, 8
ARPANET, 47
attraction of Internet communication,
48–50
bulletin board, 17n, 47, 78, 94, 100–1,
104, 196
and cyberspace, 4, 46–7, 48, 50, 114
digital divide, 58, 187
electronic frontier, 9, 48, 65, 202
email, seeemail
emancipation from broadcast media,
9, 44, 48, 50–4, 84
emoticons, 16, 55, 82n, 161
Fidonet, 47
ICQ, 50, 60, 61
interaction without reciprocity, see
Interaction without reciprocity
‘Internet’ age, 10, 49, 54, 80
Internet community, 194–7, 201, 222
Internet datacasting, 84, 103–5, 106, 120n
Internet Relay Chat (IRC), 17n, 61,
79, 166n
‘Internet Revolution’, 1, 51
Internet Service Provider (ISP), 97
MOOs, 17n, 48, 60–1, 93
MUDs, 17n, 48, 50, 60–1, 184
Net flaming, 69, 100
netiquette, 16, 55, 82n
netizen, 99, 101, 115, 190
newsgroup, 17n, 47, 87, 202
reconstitution of public sphere,
72–5, 120n
redemptive of interactivity, 9, 10, 44,
54, 84, 89, 120n, 189–90, 203
sub-media, 12, 47, 48–50, 77, 79, 80,
90, 94, 96, 104, 150–1, 188, 200, 224n
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