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Middle East Studies On-Line

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Jon W. Anderson
Jon W. Anderson*
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MESA Bulletin
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Materials of Middle East studies and not just for Middle East studies are increasingly appearing on-line. The ‘Net (Internet) that brought file archives, newsgroups and mailing lists devoted to regional issues and material has become a publishing medium in the Web (World Wide Web) with more and more of the output of Middle East studies themselves. The Bulletin now has a site, or “homepage,” on the World Wide Web at http://www.cua.edu/www/mesabul with select articles from recent issues and connections to material on the MESA Bulletin Gopher.

The World Wide Web has been the breakthrough technology for making the Internet user-friendly and mainstream. WWW hides the “computery” aspects of the Internet behind snappy graphics and an easy-to-use interface that together have fostered much recent press and commercial enthusiasm over “the Net,” such as:

It’s similar to what the library was 100 years ago, or the telegraph. It will be bigger and better than television. We’re not talking about a 500-channel medium. We’re talking about 250,000 channels that speak across all borders It represents who we are, how we act, transact business and engage in relationships. The Internet is about information empowerment. I think it will change world culture. (Michael Wolff in Investor’s Business Daily 21 Sep 95, p. A8)

This summer, the number of commercial Internet sites passed those of educational institutions. The Internet, in a sense, has graduated.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , December 1995 , pp. 161 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1995

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