The new website is one way of accessing Conflict Convo, a multi-medium conversation incorporating social media, blogging, photos, video, and email to raise awareness of conflict and produce ideas to manage it.
Corollary: perhaps higher-order spaces are denser, more difficult as a medium for conversation.
Poised behind the goal with electronic "wand" in hand, they grab the referee's attention by pressing a button, then communicate with the man they're there to assist via the medium of conversation via a microphone and earpiece.
The idea that a technology involving 140-character messages could become a serious medium for conversation seems as absurd as the notion that one could have philosophical arguments using smoke signals.
Remember that text isn't always a great medium for conversation: tone of voice (sarcasm, humour and so on) doesn't always come across when using words on a screen.
At play in the medium of conversation, his hospitable voice endlessly elicits the voices of others, not in the expectation they will lend support to some thesis, Marxist or otherwise, but in the hope they will delight him by refusing to conform to his expectations and thereby carry him deeper into the world.
Cantonese Chinese was used as the medium of conversation, and was the mother tongue of all the participants.
Images that pigeonhole the medium dominate any conversation about it; in these views, watching television is thought to be cultural anthropology, mindless escapism, emotional solace or a source of news, sports and occasionally art.
It is essentially a conversation medium.
But since Twitter became a communication and conversation medium, and especially since the noobs arrived at the start of this year, there's no stopping them.
