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Hardcover | 11 July 1994

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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.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Society & Culture Media Studies Psychology The Self, Ego, Identity, Personality Social Psychology

Series foreword
Preface	p. 1
Contributors	p. 5
A semiotic approach to programming	p. 16
Structuralism, computation, and cognition: The contribution of glossematics	p. 68
The shortest way between two points is a good idea: Signs, Peirce, and theorematic machines	p. 92
Logic grammar and the triadic sign relation	p. 104
Meaning and the machine: Toward a semiotics of interaction	p. 128
Narrative computer systems: The dialectics of emotion and formalism	p. 148
Interactive fiction: Artificial intelligence as a mode of sign production	p. 169
Plays, theaters, and the art of acting in the eighteenth century: A formal analysis	p. 186
The meaning of plot and narrative	p. 209
Face to interface	p. 222
Drawing and programming	p. 236
Hypermedia communication and academic discourse: Some speculations on a future genre	p. 263
Computer culture: The meaning of technology and the technology of meaning	p. 292
One person, one computer: The social construction of the personal computer	p. 337
Hi-tech network organizations as self-referential systems	p. 361
Comment: Disturbing communication	p. 384
Dialogues in networks	p. 389
Historical trends in computer and information technology	p. 422
Comment: The history of computer-based signs	p. 452
A historical perspective on work practices and technology	p. 457
Hypertext: From modern utopia to post-modern dystopia?	p. 477
Index	p. 491
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