Computer Media and Communication A Reader

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.

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

Introduction
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
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
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