Global Networks: Computers and International CommunicationLinda Marie Harasim MIT Press, 1993 - 411 Seiten Global Networks takes up the host of issues raised by the new networking technology that now links individuals, groups, and organizations in different countries and on different continents. The 21 contributions focus on the implementation, applications and impact of computer-mediated communication in a global context. |
Inhalt
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Support Systems | 121 |
CrossCultural Communication and CSCW | 143 |
Task Focus | 153 |
At Risk? | 167 |
Language Character Codes | 255 |
Cognitive Apprenticeship on Global Networks | 271 |
Society | 283 |
Visions | 299 |
The Case for a Global Hypernetwork | 311 |
Counting the Stars | 327 |
The Global Authoring Network | 343 |
Appendix | 357 |
The WBSI Experience | 185 |
Computer Conferencing and the New Europe | 199 |
Global Education through Learning Circles | 221 |
Capacity Building | 237 |
Notes | 369 |
References | 377 |
Index | 395 |
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Global Networks: Computers and International Communication Linda M. Harasim Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1994 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
activities Africa ARPANET behavior BESTNET BITNET bulletin board chap chapter character codes civil classroom collaborative CompuServe computer conferences computer conferencing computer networks computer-mediated communication conferencing systems cooperation countries cross-cultural CSCW cultural cyberspace discussion electronic mail ELNET environment Europe European example exchange experience face-to-face FidoNet global networks groupware Harasim host human individuals institutions intelprises interaction interconnected interface Internet involved issues Japan Japanese Japanese language JUNET kanji language learning circle Marvin Manheim Matrix ment messages networlds nication nodes NSFNET OECD organizations participants peers personal computer political problems protocols Quarterman relationships shared Shift-JIS social strategies T/TSS task teachers telecommunications telephone tion tional topic TWICS University USENET users UUCP videotex virtual communities WBSI
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 9 - Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. ... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding . . .
Seite 8 - Is it a fact . . . that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence! Or, shall we say, it is itself a thought, nothing but thought, and no longer the substance which we deemed it! (Hawthorne,
Seite 3 - after more than a century of electronic technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned. —Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
Seite 167 - thief can steal more with a computer than with a gun. Tomorrow's terrorist may be able to do more damage with a keyboard than with a bomb. To date we have been remarkably lucky.
Seite 58 - is a group of people who may or may not meet one another face-to-face, and who exchange words and ideas through the mediation of computer bulletin boards and networks. In cyberspace, we chat and argue, engage in intellectual discourse, perform acts of commerce, exchange knowledge, share emotional support, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, find friends and lose them, play games and
Seite 66 - Because we cannot see one another, we are unable to form prejudices about others before we read what they have to say: race, gender, age, national origin, and physical appearance are not apparent unless a person wants to make such characteristics public. People who are thoughtful but who are not quick to formulate a reply often do better in CMC than
Seite 68 - a blend of strong-tie and weak-tie relationships among people who have a mixture of motives, requires one to give something and enables one to receive something. I have to keep my friends in mind and send them pointers instead of throwing my informational discards into the virtual scrap heap. It doesn't take
Seite 67 - who share our passions, or who use words in a way we find attractive. In this sense, the topic is the address: you can't simply pick up a phone and ask to be connected with someone who wants to talk about Islamic art or California wine, or someone with a three-year-old daughter or a
Seite 70 - but someone else might be. That's why it is hard to distinguish idle talk from serious contextsetting. In a virtual community, idle talk is context-setting. Idle talk is where people learn what kind of person you are, why you should be trusted or mistrusted, what interests you. An agora is more than
Seite 169 - provision that: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy ... Everyone has the right to the protection