New Book: Global Networks

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Those of you interested in issues and applications of global
networks may find the recent book, GLOBAL NETWORKS, of value. 
The 21 chapters written by leaders in networking from around the
world, examine global networks from a range of perspectives:
design, policy, cross-cultural communication, and future
directions and focus on applications of global networks in
education, work, and social communication.
 
I hope that you will find Global Networks, the book, stimulating
and relevant.
 
Cordially,
Linda Harasim
Linda_Harasim () sfu ca
 
 
 
 
GLOBAL NETWORKS: Computers and International Communication
 
edited by
Linda M. Harasim
 
1993
MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts and
London, England
 
Contents
Preface
 
Part 1 Overview
 
1 Global Networks: An Introduction
Linda M. Harasim
 
2 Networlds: Networks as Social Space
Linda M. Harasim
 
3 The Global Matrix of Minds
John S. Quarterman
 
4 A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community
Howard Rheingold
 
Part 2 Issues
 
5 Jurisdictional Quandaries for Global Networks
Anne Branscomb
 
6 Computers, Networks, and Work
Lee Sproull and Sara Kiesler
 
7 Integrating Global Organizations through Task/Team Support
Systems
Marvin Manheim
 
8 Cross-Cultural Communication and CSCW
Hiroshi Ishii
 
9 Global Networking for Local Development: Task Focus and  
Relationship
Focus in Cross-Cultural Communication
Jan Walls
 
10 Information Security: At Risk?
Michael Kirby and Catherine Murray
 
Part 3 Applications
 
11 Building a Global Network: The WBSI Experience
Andrew Feenberg
 
12 Computer Conferencing and the New Europe
Robin Mason
 
13 Global Education through Learning Circles
Margaret Riel
 
14 Technology Transfer in Global Networking: Capacity Building in
Africa and Latin America
Beryl Bellman, Alex Tindimubona, and Armando Arias, Jr.
 
15 Islands in the (Data)Stream: Language, Character Codes, and  
Electronic Isolation in Japan
Jeffrey Shapard
 
16 Cognitive Apprenticeship on Global Networks
Lucio Teles
 
17 Computer Networks and the Emergence of Global Civil Society
Howard Frederick
 
Part 4 Visions for the Future
 
18 Social and Industrial Policy for Public Networks: Visions for
the Future
Mitchell Kapor and Daniel Weitzner
 
19 Co-Emulation: The Case for a Global Hypernetwork Society
Shumpei Kumon and Izumi Aizu
 
20 Sailing through Cyberspace: Counting the Stars in Passing
Robert Jacobson
 
21 The Global Authoring Network
Linda M. Harasim and Jan WallsJFJBO () acad1 alaska edu
 
Appendix
Contributors
Notes
References
Index
 
 
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> From the MIT Press blurb:
 
GLOBAL NETWORKS takes up the host of issues raised by the new  
networking technology that now links individuals, groups, and
organizations in different countries and on different continents. 
The twenty-one contributions focus on the implementation,
applications, and impact of computer-mediated communication in a
global context.
 
Previously limited to scientific research, global networks now
have an impact on social, educational, and business
communications.  Individuals with a personal computer, a modem,
and some simple software can join a new social community that is
based on interest, not location.  GLOBAL  NETWORKS, which was
written largely with the assistance of the Internet,  provides an
understanding of the issues, opportunities, and pitfalls of this
new  social connectivity.  It looks at how networking technology
can support and augment communication and collaboration from such
perspectives as  policy constraints and opportunities, language
differences, cross-cultural communication, and social network
design.
 
July 1993---340 pp. -- $29.95
0-262-08222-5  HARNH
 
 
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