RE: [-empyre-] "new"

["Jim Andrews" <jim@vispo.com>]

> If people have other ideas for a term, please share them! Janet Murray
> would prefer "digital media studies" I think (the name of a new Georgia
> Tech PhD program) and the conference "Digital Arts and Culture" provides
> another possible term. But I find "digital" problematic because I think it
> emphasizes the wrong thing; computation is the really interesting, dynamic
> thing here while "digital" is a static property that enables computation.
> However, we can't very well say "computer media," because that refers to
> floppy disks and CD-Rs!

'programmable media'.

ja