Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992. First edition. Octavo pale wrappers; 580 p.: ill.; 24 cm; bibliographical references and index. A Fine copy in Fine DJ; with faint signs of wear. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0262023466

An important, relatively early work om interactive multimedia. Uncommon in the firs ed., in such nice condition. Technical communication and information systems (series); Chapters entitled: Sociomedia: an introduction / Edward Barrett -- Education by engagement and construction: a strategic education initiative for a multimedia renewal of American education / Ben Shneiderman -- Is there a class in this text?: creating knowledge in the electronic classroom / John M. Slatin -- Varieties of virtual: expanded metaphors for computer-mediated learning / Patricia Ann Carlson -- Cognitive architecture in hypermedia instruction / Henrietta Nickels Shirk -- Multimedia: informational alchemy or conceptual typography? / Evelyn Schlusselberg and V. Judson Harward -- Dimensions, context, and freedom: the library in the social creation of knowledge / Gregory T. Anderson -- Multimedia and the library and information studies curriculum / Kathleen Burnett -- The virtual museum and related epistemological concerns / Glen Hoptman. An epistemic analysis of the interaction between knowledge, education, and technology / David Chen -- The many faces of multimedia: how new technologies might change the nature of the academic endeavor / Alison Hartman, John E. Diem, and Matthew Quagliana -- Bootstrapping hypertext: student-created documents, intermedia, and the social construction of knowledge / George P. Landow -- The CUPLE project: a hyper- and multimedia approach to restructuring physics education / E.F. Redish, Jack M. Wilson, and Chad McDaniel -- Collaborative virtual communities: using Learning constellations, a multimedia ethnographic research tool / Ricki Goldman-Segall -- The crisis management game of Three Mile Island: using multi-media simulation in management education / Thomas M. Fletcher -- Restructuring space, time, story, and text in advanced multi-media learning environments / Janet H. Murray. The virtual classroom: software for collaborative learning / Starr Roxanne Hiltz -- Medical Center: a modular hypermedia approach to program design / Nels Anderson -- Prototyping multimedia: lessons from the Visual Computing Group at Project Athena Center for Educational Computing Initiative / Ben Davis -- Engineering-design instructional computer system (EDICS) / David Gordon Wilson -- Computers and design activities: their mediating role in engineering education / Shahaf Gal -- The need for negotiation in cooperative work / Beth Adelson and Troy Jordan -- Teaching hypermedia concepts using hypermedia techniques / Peter A. Gloor -- Computer integrated documentation / Guy Boy -- The Worchester State College "Elder Connection": using multimedia and information technology to promote intergenerational education / Virginia Z. Ogozalek ... [et al.]. Paradoxical reactions and powerful ideas: educational computing in a department of physics / Sherry Turkle. // Interactive multimedia. Knowledge, Sociology of. Multimedia. Hypermedia. Kennissociologie. Multimédias interactifs. Sociologie de la connaissance. Multimédia. Identifier: Education; Multi-media; Use of; Interactive computers Note(s): "Most of the papers ... were originally presented at the first conference on 'The Social Creation of Knowledge' ... at MIT in spring, 1991"--Acknowledgements./ Includes bibliographical references and index.