Is there a sense in which the language we use to describe our relationship with information and to IT tells us a lot about our attitudes towards both?
Surfing - skimming along across a surface towards some unknown destination
Browsing - picking up and putting down, considering briefly and moving on
Hypertext - a form of text that is extremely agitated and unsettled - perhaps even psychologically disturbed?
Web Portal - a doorway that moves us from one space into another
Googling - What?
All of these suggest that perhaps our ideal imagined relationship with and experience of information is one of constant flux, movement, change, displacement. What does this tell us about the experiential dimensions of networked ICTs that might differentiate them from the ways that earlier media structured our relationships with knowledge and information?
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