If digital communications facilitate new language experiences... how are they different from ordinary speech and writing? Electronic mediation complicates the transmission of language. The function of representation comes to grief when words lose their connection with things and come to stand in place of things, in short, when language represents itself.(MP)

There are sheep in the field. She says: I know what they are but I don't know what they are called. Thus Wittgenstein is routed by my mother.(AB)

- listening and reading in different places.

- the pursuit of the authentic.

- the investment (in technology, in technical skill).

Certainly there are common strands of ideological concern, over the control of and access to information. The favoured statistic that only a third of the world's population have access to the telephone makes explicit the vested interests at play.

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