Re: Watch Your Words

Sally Tweddle (tweddlesj who-is-at cancer.bham.ac.uk)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:08:35 GMT

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> The term "lurker" when referring to many of the Xmca ers who are
>"listening" rather than responding is a very negative label.
>
Lurking is one of those terms taking new meaning in cyberspace- it
doesn't have the connotations it has in more sinister settings.
Ken Goodman

Like Ken, I think the connotations are different. It is partly to do
with being in cyberspace. But it's also because in part we evoke
the negativity with which it is usually associated in order to rebutt it
by using it within a discourse about transformation, about reading
becoming writing becoming reading etc.

Sally Tweddle
Sally Tweddle
Senior CRC Fellow in Cancer Information and Education

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