Guarded enthusiasm for the new creative freedoms of digital signals. More on newspapers and the Internet. The New York Times Aug 24. The problems of selling on the Internet. How DVD might displace film on video cassette, or merely supplement it.
Debate continues over the commercial potential of the Internet.
Dec. A poll which finds 'Digital Citizens are optimistic, tolerant, civic-minded, and radically committed to change'. Internet Life, September. There are also interesting profiles of typical Net users. Luke was a visiting scholar at Victoria University last year and is an innovative thinker in communication theory. Here he examines the future of the humanities in face of redefinitions of knowledge.