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Conclusion

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The Internet's vast size and diversity serves to increase feelings of alienation and confusion. As Lakoff's theory of information exchange establishes, increased size and diversity severely complicates the communication of ideas. The problem of incommensurability arises as groups diversify in, for lack of a better word, paradigms. This explains why single phone line BBSes and small, specialized networks serve as better mediums of information exchange. A selective island community allows for a connectiveness that the cold, vast world of the Web cannot.

• Introduction and Statement of Problems
• Linguistic Theory
• BBS Rhetoric        
• Web Rhetoric      
• Conclusion

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