Computer Media and Communication A Reader [Paperback]

Computer Media and Communication: A Readeris 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.

Introduction
PART ONE: HISTORY
Introduction: From Logic Machines to the Dynabook: An Overview of the Conceptual Development of Computer Media
1. As We May Think,Vannevar Bush
2. Computing Machinery,Alan M. Turing
3. Man-Computer Symbiosis,John C. R. Licklider
4. A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man's Intellect,Douglas C. Engelbart
5. The Computer as a Communication Device,John C. R. Licklider and Robert R. Taylor
6. Personal Dynamic Media,Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg
7. A New Home for the Mind,Ted Nelson
PART TWO: SYSTEMATIC STUDIES
8. Modernity Modernized: The Cultural Impact of Computerization,Niels Ole Finnemann
9. `Interactivity': Tracking a New Concept in Media and Communication Studies,Jens F. Jensen
10. One Person, One Computer: The Social Construction of the Personal Computer,Klaus Bruhn Jensen
11. Who Will We Be in Cyberspace?,Langdon Winner
12. Understanding Community in the Information Age,Steven G. Jones
13. Posting in a Different Voice: Gender and Ethics in Computer-Mediated Communication,Susan C. Herring
14. Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories About Virtual Cultures,Allucquere Rosanne Stone
15. Topographic Writing: Hypertext and the Electronic Writing Space,Jay David Bolter
16. The CD-ROM Novel Myst and McLuhan's Fourth law of Media: Myst and It's `Retl3Ä