1st Edition

Knowledge Machines Language and Information in a Technological Society

By Denise E. Murray Copyright 1995
    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    216 Pages
    by Routledge

    Provides a wide-ranging survey of the sociolinguistic issues raised by the impact of information technology. The author demonstrates how and in which ways the new technologies both affect human communication and are in turn affected by the way people communicate using the technologies.

    General Editor's Preface

    1. Introduction
    2. People communicating
    3. The computer at work
    4. The computer as phone message service
    5. The computer as communication site
    6. The computer as text processor
    7. The computer as knowledge broker
    8. Public highway or private road? or Who is in charge?

    Glossary
    References
    Index

    Biography

    Denise E. Murray