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:	9781138437623
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/20/2017
Series:	Language In Social Life
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

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