Book Reviews : Writing the Information Superhighway William Condon and Wayne Butler. Boston: Allyn and Bacon,1997, 318 pages Writing for the World Wide Web Victor J. Vitanza. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998, 236 pages Connections: A Gulde to On-Line Writing Daniel Anderson, Bret Benjamin, and Bill Paredes-Holt. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998, 331 pages

1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 130-134
Author(s):  
Penny Hirsch ◽  
John C. Anderson
1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl A. Koski

Over a quarter century ago, James W. Carey and John J. Quirk questioned the prevailing belief that technology would revolutionize communication. Now that we have begun traveling on the information superhighway, we are bombarded more often than ever by what Carey and Quirk called “the rhetoric of the electronic sublime.” Yet an exploration of some fifty award-winning health messages on the World Wide Web suggests that our well-worn maps—that is, the traditional concepts of source, content, purpose, audience, and presentation—can give us a sense of direction as we begin our fall down the rabbit-hole.


2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Keren

Abstract: Blogging, the publication of on-line diaries with links to other Web sites, is a recent activity and yet is already producing its celebrities. The author analyzes diary entries posted over five years by one master blogger, and his relations with his readers, to try to originate preliminary hypotheses on the politics of blogging. Observation of blogging in one of its most glamorous manifestations suggests that the new emancipation achieved by self-representation on the World Wide Web may be associated with what Scott Lash has called “the politics of melancholy,” here characterized by preference for virtual reality, formation of a cult-like community, and political passivity. Résumé : Le blogage, qui consiste à afficher son journal personnel en ligne en y incluant des liens vers des sites connexes, est une activité récente et pourtant elle a déjà ses célébrités. L’auteur analyse les entrées de journal d’un maître bloggeur sur une durée de cinq ans ainsi que ses rapports avec ses lecteurs, en vue de développer des hypothèses préliminaires sur la politique du blogage. L’observation du blogage dans une de ses manifestations les plus attrayantes suggère que l’on peut associer la nouvelle émancipation que permet la représentation de soi sur le Web à ce que Scott Lash appelle « la politique de la mélancolie », caractérisée ici par une préférence pour la réalité virtuelle, la formation d’une communauté ressemblant à un culte et la passivité politique.


2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S260) ◽  
pp. 603-606
Author(s):  
Françoise Genova

AbstractAstronomy has been at the forefront among scientific disciplines for the sharing of data, and the advent of the World Wide Web has produced a revolution in the way astronomers do science. The recent development of the concept of Virtual Observatory builds on these foundations. This is one of the truly global endeavours of astronomy, aiming at providing astronomers with seamless access to data and tools, including theoretical data. Astronomy on-line resources provide a rare example of a world-wide, discipline-wide knowledge infrastructure, based on internationally agreed interoperability standards.


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