We are witnessing a profound revolution in communication and learning in a post-Gutenberg world. The MIT Press series on Digital Communication will present advanced research into all aspects of this revolutionary change in our forms of expression, thought, and being. This series is no longer active, and the MIT Press is no longer accepting proposals for books in the series.
Text, ConText, and HyperText presents recent developments in three related and important areas of technical communication: the design of effective documentation; the impact of new technology and research...
by Edward Barrett, Deborah A. Levinson and Suzana Lisanti
ISBN: 9780262536974
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 13, 2001
An accessible presentation of all aspects of teaching Web design based on the premise that the principles of good communication design in the past apply equally well to the Web.
Hypertext, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Information
Edited by Edward Barrett
With Michael Lesk
ISBN: 9780262521611
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 8, 1991
This collection of essays continues Barrett's investigations into implementing networked online systems described in his first book Text, ConText, and HyperText, with a more focused emphasis on specific...
Effective Documentation is a major sourcebook that offers technical writers, editors, teachers, and students of technical communication a wide variety of practical guidelines based on often hard to...
Contextual Media expands upon the theme of social construction of knowledge developed in Edward Barrett's three previous volumes. The thirteen contributions focus on specific applications of multimedia...
Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge
Edited by Edward Barrett
ISBN: 9780262521932
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 22, 1994
Sociomedia examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social or collaborative research, learning, and instruction in the university, one of the best environments for developing and analyzing the effects of computing technologies on our understanding of complex sets of information.
The essays in Hypermedia and Literary Studies discuss the theoretical and practical opportunities and challenges posed by the convergence of hypermedia systems and traditional written texts.
Designing Minimalist Instruction for Practical Computer Skill
by John M. Carroll
ISBN: 9780262031639
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 5, 1990
The legendary Funnel of Nurnberg was said to make people wise very quickly when the right knowledge was poured in; it is an approach that designers continue to apply in trying to make instruction more efficient.
