The Society of Text
Subtitle: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information (Information Systems Series)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: July 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9780262022910
Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction; Computers - Other Applications; Computer Books: Operating Systems; Database Management - General; Miscellaneous Software; General Theory of Computing; Data processing; Hypertext systems; Interactive multimedia; Technical writing
First sentence: In previous essays I have argued that online information makes unusual demands on users of computing equipment, both in terms of their practices as users of machinery and as consumers of information (Rubens, 1987; Rubens, 1988).