I didn’t have chance to access to the Internet recently. It does mean I don’t have Internet access. I just forced myself not to go to Internet since Sally asked me to submit my literature review no later than this Wednesday. “Going to Internet” is as familiar as “going shopping” according to my mom since her son and daughter always disappear after telling her I am going to the Internet. The Internet is invisible physically but most of my friends and I have got used to say going to Internet. It seems a field or a place for us. It might be the difference across languages. In English, we often say surfing the Internet. In Dutch, they state Iets op het Internet doen, which means doing something on the Internet. They both use metaphor to imply the Internet is a space. One of my colleagues and I had an interesting conversation last year. He *Frank*is five years younger than me so that he has used the Internet when he was really little. He doesn’t think the Internet is a cyberspace. It is just a common space in his life. How about the generation who adopted the Internet when they were still babies? They watched their parents surfing the Internet and also played something in the Internet by their own. Will they take the Internet as a cyberspace like us? Take television as an example, my grandparents thought that watching television is watching a box. For me, we are just watching television. It is so real to me.

It reminds me of my lurking paper. The COM101 students knew nothing or just a little bit about list serves, mailing lists, newsgroups and BBS. They are more familiar with Instant Messaging, role-playing, online chatting board and text message on their mobile phones. Is it possible to inherit the old literature review to yearly-changing technology? No only lurking but also privacy research all faces the same dilemma. I would rather believe it is a sign of a paradigm shift. When I learned Kuhn*s work, it never occured to me that someday I will use this term, what a serious term!