Network Nation - Revised Edition: Human Communication via Computer
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262581205 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 589 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Alvaro Pascual-Leone is Director of Research at the Behavioral Neurology Unit of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.Starr Roxanne Hiltz is Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Rutgers University, Newark.Murray Turoff is Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Rutgers University, Newark.
In it home computers are as common as the telephone. Minorities and women compete on equal terms with white males, and the elderly and handicapped are released from the confines of their infirmities to skim the electronic terrain as swiftly as anyone else. In it home computers are as common as the telephone. Teresa Carpenter , Village Voice. They link person to person, shrinking, as the authors put it, "time and distance barriers among people, and between people and information, to near zero." In its simplest form, the Network Nation is a place where thoughts are exchanged easily and democratically and intellect affords one more personal power
A visionary book when it was first published in the late 1970s, The Network Nation has become the defining document and standard reference for the field of computer mediated communication (CMC). They have also added a selected bibliography on the key literature.Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff each hold the position of Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. This revised edition adds a substantial new chapter on "superconnectivity" (invented and defined in the unabridged edition of the Online Dictionary of the English Language, 2067) that reviews the developments of the last fifteen years and updates the authors' speculations about the future.Hiltz and Turoff highlight major current organizational, educational, and public applications of CMC, integrate their theoretical understanding of the impact of CMC technology,
Getting it right - an accurate look into the Net's future While reading The Network Nation, I had to constantly refer to the publication date on the inside cover, 1978. Indeed, I was reading the revised edition dating back to 1993, but that didn't lessen my amazement. TNN was visionary when it was first published, but it is without question the defining document and perhaps standard reference work for the field of Computer Mediated Communication, or CMC. The authors highly major institutional and private applications of CMC and touch upon the impact of CMC, whil. "An outstanding book" according to A Customer. I too kept looking at the date, and still find it hard to believe it was written in the '70's. Todays conferencing systems still aspire to the functionalities that are described in this book.Len Kawell attributed this book to being one of his key influences when he wrote Notes-11 at Digital, the precursor to the VAX Notes conferencing system. He left and became one of the founders of Iris Associates, the company that brought us Lotus Notes (also starring Tim Halvorsen and Ray Ozzie).This book indeed is a . Facebook Precursor Want a historical perspective on how we got to Facebook, LinkedIn and all the other social media we have today? This book takes you back 30 years (30 years!) to the precedent-setting computer conferencing environment Roxanne and Murray developed at he New Jersey Institute of Technology. Social media didn't just happen in some undergraduates dorm room a few years ago. It's been evolving for a long time.