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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext Computer Media and Communication: A Reader is a collection of key texts selected for their significance to thought about computers as media. The chapters in the first part offer a chronological overview of how thinking about computers as a means of communication developed. The second part offers prophetic analyses of the implications of computer media for culture and society! while exemplifying significant directions of current research. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
