Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age - From Method to Metaphor

Informationen zum Autor Richard Coyne is Professor and Chair of Architectural Computing at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of four other books published by the MIT Press, including The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media . Klappentext Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophical thinking--including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology, critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction--comparing them and showing how they differ in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications, computer representation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and multimedia. Zusammenfassung Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophical thinking--including logical positivism! analytic philosophy! pragmatism! phenomenology! critical theory! hermeneutics! and deconstruction--comparing them and showing how they differ in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications! computer representation! virtual reality! artificial intelligence! and multimedia.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Coyne, Richard (Professor Coyne
• Assisted by: Sean Cubitt (Editor), Sean (Professor of Film and Television Studies Cubitt (Editor), Roger F Malina (Editor), Roger F. Malina (Editor), Roger F. (Leonardo Executive Editor Malina (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1995
• EAN: 9780262518949
• ISBN: 978-0-262-51894-9
• No. of pages: 413
• Series: Leonardo Book; Leonardo Book Series; Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age; Leonardo Book Series; Leonardo Book
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT