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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 October 1999
- ISBN 9780198742579
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 234x156x19 mm
- Weight 548 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book explains the fascinating history of the conceptual development of computer media and examines the way that computers have been used for communication from the first elementary `logic machines' to the use of the Internet today. It presents both a historical development of thought about computers as media, as well as prophetic contemporary analyses.
MoreLong description:
Computer Media and Communication: A Reader is a collection of key texts selected for their significance to thought about computers as media. The book is divided into two parts. The chapters in the first part offer a chronological overview of how thinking about computers as a means of communication developed, while the second part offers far-reaching analyses of the implications of computer media for culture and society, while highlighting significant directions of current research. The book not only provides an insight into how thinking about computers as media has developed but also is an excellent guide for students and others interested in the field of media and communication studies.
(This book is the first in the Oxford Readers in Media and Communication series under the General Editorship of Professors Brian Winston and Everette Dennis which will be an authoritative wide-ranging series of readings for media students. There are more than eighty institutions in the UK offering courses in the field at present and in the USA this number is ten times as great.)
Paul Mayer's interesting collection of papers is a very welcome sign of the growing maturity of computer-based media and communication as an area of academic study.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: HISTORY
Introduction: From Logic Machines to the Dynabook: An Overview of the Conceptual Development of Computer Media
As We May Think
Computing Machinery
Man-Computer Symbiosis
A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man's Intellect
The Computer as a Communication Device
Personal Dynamic Media
A New Home for the Mind
Alan Kay: Computer Software PART TWO: SYSTEMATIC STUDIES
Modernity Modernized: The Cultural Impact of Computerization
`Interactivity': Tracking a New Concept in Media and Communication Studies
One Person, One Computer: The Social Construction of the Personal Computer
Who Will We Be in Cyberspace?
Understanding Community in the Information Age
Posting in a Different Voice: Gender and Ethics in Computer-Mediated Communication
Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures
Topographic Writing: Hypertext and the Electronic Writing Space
The CD-ROM Novel Myst and McLuhan's Fourth law of Media: Myst and It's `Retrievals'
Computer Mediated Studies: An Emerging Field
Index
