Knowledge Machines: Language and Information in a Technological Society

by Denise E. Murray

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317897859
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/11/2014
Series:	Language In Social Life
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Denise E. Murray

Table of Contents

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