| Description |
228 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ([221]-223) and index |
| Subject |
Online information services.
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| LC no. |
95053001 |
| ISBN |
0275955494 (alk. paper) |
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