Research Catalog

Title

The Computer as medium / Peter Bøgh Andersen, Berit Holmqvist, Jens F. Jensen.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Andersen, Peter Bøgh
• Holmqvist, Berit
• Jensen, Jens F.

Description

vii, 495 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Many industrial training applications, educational applications, and of course information applications such as databases and hypermedia are all attempts to communicate, and yet we really don't know much about the computer as a communicative medium. Bringing together a collection of essays presenting such diverse theoretical approaches as general semiotics, linguistics, communication theory, literary and art criticism, sociology, and history, the editors set out to establish and elaborate the role of computer systems as a sign technology. The volume is divided into three main parts, each focused on a different field of semiotic inquiry. "Computer-Based Signs" discusses the special nature of signs produced by means of computers. "The Rhetoric of Interactive Media" deals with codes of aesthetics and composition for the new "elastic" medium of communication: interactive fiction and hypertext. "Computers in Context" analyzes computer technology in the larger cultural, historical, and organizational contexts. Scholars in computer science, cognitive science, organization theory, information and media science, semiotics, communication, and linguistics will find this book invaluable, and as current excitement about hypermedia and electronic books continues to grow, a broader audience including computer artists and literary critics will also find it a useful resource.

Series Statement

Learning in doing

Uniform Title

Learning in doing

Subject

• Computers
• Mass media
• Interactive multimedia
• Interactive media
• Attitude to Computers

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A semiotic approach to programming / Peter Bøgh Anderson -- Structuralism, computation, and cognition : the contribution of glossematics / David Piotrowski -- The shortest way between two points is a good idea ; signs, Peirce, and theorematic machines / Keld Gall Jørgensen -- Logic grammar and the triadic sign relation / Per Hasle -- Meaning and the machine : toward a semiotics of interaction / Per Aage Brandt -- Narrative computer systems : the dialectics of emotion and formalism / Berit Holmqvist and Peter Bøgh Anderson -- Interactive fiction : artificial intelligence as a mode of sign production / Peter Bøgh Anderson and Berit Holmqvist -- Plays, theaters, and the art of acting in the eighteenth century : a formal analysis / Jens Hougaard The meaning of plot and narrative / Jørgen Bang -- Face to interface / Berit Holmqvist -- Drawing and programming / Børn Laursen and Peter Bøgh Anderson -- Hypermedia communication and academic discourse : some speculations on a future genre / Gunnar Liestøl -- Computer culture : the meaning of technology and the technology of meaning / Jens F. Jensen -- One person, one computer : the social construction of the personal computer / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- Hi-tech network organization as self-referential systems / Lars Qvortrup -- Comment : disturbing communication / Peter Bøgh Anderson -- Dialogues in networks / Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen -- Historical trends in computer and information technology / Jens Christensen -- Comment : the history of computer-based signs / Peter Bøgh Anderson -- Dialogues in networks / Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen -- Historical trends in computer and information technology / Randi Markussen -- Hypertext : from modern utopia to post-modern dystopia?

ISBN

0521419956

LCCN

^^^93025898^

OCLC

• 28376644
• SCSB-11241045

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library