The Computer as medium

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Title:

Author:

Andersen, Peter Bøgh.

ISBN:

9780521035804

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Physical Description:

vii, 495 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Learning in doing : social, cognitive, and computational perspectives

Series Title:

Learning in doing : social, cognitive, and computational perspectives

Contents:

Part I. Computer-Based Signs -- 1. A semiotic approach to programming Peter Bøgh Andersen -- 2. Structuralism, computation and cognition: the contribution of glossematics -- 3. The shortest way between two points is a good idea: signs, Peirce and theorematic machines -- 4. Logic grammar and the triadic sign relation -- 5. Meaning and the machine: toward a semiotics of interaction -- Part II. The Rhetoric of Interactive Media: -- 6. Narrative computer systems: the dialectics of emotion and formalism -- 7. Interactive fiction: artificial intelligence as a mode of sign production -- 8. Plays, theatres and the art of acting in the eighteenth century: a formal analysis -- 9. The meaning of plot and narrative -- 10. Face to interface -- 11. Drawing and programming -- 12. Hypermedia communication and academic discourse: some speculations on a future genre -- Part III. Computers In Context: -- 13. Computer culture: the meaning of technology and the technology of meaning -- 14. One person, one computer: the social construction of the personal computer -- 15. Hi-tech network organizations as self-referential systems -- Comment: disturbing communication -- 16. Dialogues in networks -- 17. Historical trends in computer and information technology -- Comment: the history of computer-based signs -- 18. A historical perspective on work practices and technology -- 19. Hypertext: from modern utopia to post-modern dystopia?

Subject Term:

Computers.

Interactive multimedia.

Mass media.

Added Author:

Andersen, Peter Bøgh.

Holmqvist, Berit.

Jensen, Jens F.

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Summary

Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium brings insights from art, literature and theatre to bear on computers and discusses the communicative and organizational nature of computer networks within a historical perspective. The book consists of three parts. The first part characterizes the semiotic nature of computers and discusses semiotic approaches to programming and interface design. The second part discusses narrative and aesthetic issues of interactive fiction, information systems and hypertext. The final part contains papers on the cultural, organizational and historical impact of computers.The broad and rich coverage of this book will appeal to scholars in cognitive science, computer science, linguistics, semiotics, media studies and mass communications, cultural studies and education.