Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine

CMC NEWS

"Show Me" a Decade of Computers and Writing: Mizzou '94

Michael E. Doherty, Jr. describes the electric atmosphere at the Computers & Writing Conference in Columbia, Missouri.

Announcing the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Margaret McLaughlin introduces a new, peer-reviewed scientific journal which will cover Computer-Mediated Communication.

A Welcome from the editor of CMC Magazine

An Overview of the Society of Electronic News Delivery

Anne Bilodeau calls for participation in a group for journalists, publishers, consultants, online services, educators and assorted others to take a searching look at the future of electronic/online news products.

FEATURES

PLATO: The Emergence of On-Line Community

David R. Woolley traces the development of the communication features of PLATO, a timesharing system for Computer-Based Education, and how its use spawned one of the world's first on-line communities.

The Beginning Teachers Computer Network

Jonathan Grudin relates the experience of using a computer network to help new teachers overcome the isolation of teaching.

ESSAYS

The Common Place MOO: Orality and Literacy in Virtual Reality

Are virtual realities an answer to Socrates's critique of writing, and to modern condemnations of electronic media? Don Langham explores the meaning of Moo-based discourse.

Into the Net: A Reporter's Transformation

Anne Bilodeau evokes her personal coming-of-age to the wider world of the Net.

Technology in the Classroom: Proceed with Caution

How should technology be introduced in the classroom? Are computers an end in themselves? Steve Cameron takes a stand.

DEPARTMENTS

Pyxis Cyberea

How can journalists write in hypertext? Gary Ritzenthaler discusses experiments with global hypermedia in the Florida Compass news project.

From the Nets

Waves... Threads... Catches....

Mbox

A letter!

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