(Electronic) Mailing the Editor

Emails, Message Boards and Early Interactive Web Design in the 1990s

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22010880
AutoresWill Mari (0000-0002-6730-8427, Louisiana State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen11
Número3
Páginas569-586
Fecha de publicación2023-03-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDigital Journalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2167-0811 • E-ISSN: 2167-082X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21670811.2022.2043760
OpenAlexW4214824735
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas16

In the mid-to-late 1990s, readers reacted to journalistic accounts of the world around them, from sending emails to posting to message boards on newspaper sites. Some of these practices, especially positive suggestions of sources and conversations with reporters, represent an earlier time’s web-optimism, now perhaps lost. This article will explore how design practices, including integrated forums, tabs, indexes and other early site design conventions—sometimes intentional, sometimes not— led to the first generation of online interactions between readers and news workers in the United States, and, to some degree, in the United Kingdom and Canada. This project will explore examples of in-situ design hopes surrounding these early digital connections, and why and how some of that enthusiasm failed to make it into the 2000s and beyond

Enthusiasm · Internet privacy · Media studies · Newspaper · Optimism · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · The Internet · Web site · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Communication, and Education · Psychology