The message is the medium : online all the time for everyone / Tom Koch
- Bib ID:
- 2831455
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Koch, Tom, 1949-
- Description:
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- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996
- 228 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0275955494 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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The Message is the Medium is both a radical reevaluation and a new approach to understanding online data and information systems, - the "Information Highway." It is not another "how-to" guide, although it does contain practical and instructional data. Rather, it offers a general tutorial explaining the system-at-large from the perspective of the user, and the data he or she needs to resolve problems and crises. It thus provides a simple, powerful, and unique explanation to online resources: what they are and what they do for the individual. All chapters are illustrated.
- Full contents:
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- 1. "The Medium Is the Message" and Other Myths of the Evolving, Electronic Age
- 2. Old News: The Necessity for Change
- 3. Everybody's Resource: The Knowledge Center
- 4. The Essential Tool: Electronic Mail and Messages
- 5. Finding It: The Organization of Online Material
- 6. The Internet: Fact and Context
- 7. Mute Dialogues: Hope and Despair Online
- 8. "Virtual" Realities: Sex and Love Online
- 9. The Widow's Syndrome and Other Online Tales of Money
- 10. Quality: Fact and Opinion
- 11. Speculations: Past and Future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ([221]-223) and index.
- Subject:
- Online information services
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1996
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