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

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