Glossary Series Day 2: Onground - Where our feet are?

September 5, 1:00 PMSF Boomers ExaminerSuzanna Stinnett

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This post is part of the Glossary Series, a 100-day conversation designed to develop and clarify the language we use to describe online communication. As Year 2008 comes to a close, the emerging Glossary of Online Communication will be published along with a selection of the comments from my readership. I hope to see your comments among them.

I’d like to point out that this Glossary is not meant to be a quirky artistic event. I want to clarify and add meaning to this language which I believe is important to our future as a sustained and vital culture. Keep that in mind as you scrutinize these terms.

So today’s term is one I came up with to describe activities which occur outside the “online” realm. I call it “onground.”

Day 2: Onground

Onground: The world we walk around on. Bricks-and-mortar. The electronically-unaided full-sensory fleshy world. As opposed to "online." Also referred to as "offline," however, the onground world does not exist strictly within the definition of the online world. A traveler in the outback, for example, does not have to be described as "offline," while she likely is also not online.

What other words are being used to describe the world that is not online? Can we improve on my definition here? Does it need expanding or further clarification? How about a secondary definition?

Suzanna

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