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| | interdisciplines : The Future of Web Publishing : A humanities approach to the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | This new phenomenon is of particular relevance for those interested in the pragmatics of communication: in every communication act, information must undergo cognitive and rhetorical processing in order to pass from a “private”, personal status, to a public one. |
 | | For example, the phenomenon of “banner blindness”, closely studied by usability experts, in which banner ads on web pages are not perceived by users, could be explained by the constraints resulting from this specific affordance of the web. |
 | | The research community has been using the Internet for a considerable time, well before the commercial explosion of the new economy and the multiplication of web sites: lists, newsgroups, ftp transfer protocols all made possible, since the Internet was first launched, important scientific exchanges as well as the transmission, sharing and archiving of research articles. |
| www.interdisciplines.org /defispublicationweb/papers/1 (6094 words) |
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