Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part I Computer-based signs
- Part II The rhetoric of interactive media
- Part III Computers in context
- Introduction
- 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 modem Utopia to post-modem dystopia?
- Index
Comment: The history of computer-based signs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part I Computer-based signs
- Part II The rhetoric of interactive media
- Part III Computers in context
- Introduction
- 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 modem Utopia to post-modem dystopia?
- Index
Summary

- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Computer as Medium , pp. 452 - 456Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994