Talk:Micromedia

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[edit] Suspect

This article looks suspect wrt WP:NEO. Any comments? Stephen B Streater 09:29, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comment

I wrote this, and only now had followed your link to the neologism-page. I have no idea why the article should be marked as "advertisement", but a "neologism" in the defined sense it may be. Although the people using this quite important term/concept for making the media environment we live in more understandable have a very good reputation, it has not been widely uptaken yet by peer-reviewed journals.

BUT ... this is what Wikipedia (in my view) should be all about: being quicker and having more intellectual vitality than traditional media. There has been a *very* interesting discussion on the Web 2.0 entry, for example, and this certainly was (and is) a neologism. The world, and certainly Wikipedia, will become a lot more boring and intellectually poorer if such discussions aren't possible anymore. I, being a scholar writing peer-reviewed articles by the way, certainly would lose interest.

SO ... if people like Manovich and Haque are introducing a term/concept which promises to explain the very digital culture Wikipedia is building on and promoting itself, an entry on this subject should IMHO be welcomed, not deleted.

Martin Lindner 16:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)