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.)
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.)
Introduction
PART ONE: HISTORY
Introduction: From Logic Machines to the Dynabook: An Overview of
the Conceptual Development of Computer Media
1: Vannevar Bush: As We May Think
2: Alan M. Turing: Computing Machinery
3: John C. R. Licklider: Man-Computer Symbiosis
4: Douglas C. Engelbart: A Conceptual Framework for the
Augmentation of Man's Intellect
5: John C. R. Licklider and Robert R. Taylor: The Computer as a
Communication Device
6: Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg: Personal Dynamic Media
7: Ted Nelson: A New Home for the Mind
8: Alan Kay: Computer Software PART TWO: SYSTEMATIC STUDIES
9: Niels Ole Finnemann: Modernity Modernized: The Cultural Impact
of Computerization
10: Jens F. Jensen: `Interactivity': Tracking a New Concept in
Media and Communication Studies
11: Klaus Bruhn Jensen: One Person, One Computer: The Social
Construction of the Personal Computer
12: Langdon Winner: Who Will We Be in Cyberspace?
13: Steven G. Jones: Understanding Community in the Information
Age
14: Susan C. Herring: Posting in a Different Voice: Gender and
Ethics in Computer-Mediated Communication
15: Allucquere Rosanne Stone: Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?:
Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures
16: Jay David Bolter: Topographic Writing: Hypertext and the
Electronic Writing Space
17: David Miles: The CD-ROM Novel Myst and McLuhan's Fourth law of
Media: Myst and It's `Retrievals'
18: Paul A. Mayer: Computer Mediated Studies: An Emerging Field
Index
Paul A. Mayer has taught at the Department of Communication at Seton Hall University in the areas of television production, digital technologies, and multimedia design and production
`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.'
Peter Dean, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media
Technologies Special Issue: The Internet Autumn 2000 Vol 6 No 3
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