Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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

Reviews

`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