Beyond the Scientific Revolution — by John Brockman
An interesting series of chapters – discussed by interesting people.
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Lingua Franca | Breakthrough Books
The History of Reading
We asked five scholars to recommend the best books about reading.
Interesting. For example:
Kathleen E. Welch, professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and author of (MIT, 1999).
“In Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet With Awareness (Yale, forthcoming), Laura J. Gurak analyzes the Internet’s four main functional components: speed, reach, anonymity, and interactivity. She uses examples from a number of Web sites to demonstrate how readers now step ‘through the screen.’ Another important book on the history of reading, Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede’s (Southern Illinois, 1990), predatedand in fact predictedmuch of the collaborative reading and writing that now occurs in cyberspace.”
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by Ken Goldberg (Editor)
“Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
It may be trite to say that new technology changes the way we see ourselves and the world, but it’s crucial that we explore those changes fully. In The Robot in the Garden, computer scientist Ken Goldberg curates a collection of essays on telerobotics by critics, philosophers, and engineers, addressing questions as fundamental as, “How does mediation affect the knowledge we acquire?”
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Durlacher: Creating Community Online
The other one Aldon mentioned.
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washingtonpost.com: Bearing Gifts, They Come From Afar
“A gift economy is indeed an economy — you can rationally expect that if you tender a gift, sooner or later you will receive some kind of return.
“But the return is indirect. And expectation of a return can be idealistic, even mystical.”
One of the two articles mentioned by Aldon in Psyber-l
To live deep and suck all the marrow of life….
Understanding The Voluntary Simplicity “Movement” – The Simple Living Network
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow of life…. � Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden
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Slashdot | Rethinking The Virtual Community: Part One
Posted by JonKatz on Thursday December 21, @10:45AM
from the –dreaming-of-cyberville- dept.
Less than a decade ago, the Virtual Community was one of the most powerful ideas emanating from the Net, and BBS’s and the nascent Internet were already providing glimpses of a better world to come. Proponents are a lot wiser — and sadder — now. Can the Virtual Community survive adolescent flamers and the dotcom era? Yes, but it will have to be dramatically reconceived. (First of a series).
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Internet, discourse and interaction potential
Keynote to appear at First Asia Pacific Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
Harold Thimbleby
Middlesex University
LONDON, N11 2NQ, GB
Email: harold@mdx.ac.uk
Abstract
The conventions of drama present the planned as spontaneous, stimulating the imagination of greater interaction potential than there is. This paper argues for a distinction between design for demonstration and design for interaction. The distinction is needed on the Internet, which supports the greatest range of discourse — spontaneous to planned — and therefore wide scope for confusing dramatic presentation for effective interaction.
Keywords
Design, discourse, drama, human-computer interaction, hypertext, scenarios