BOOK REVIEW: The Age of Electronic Messages by John G. Truxal (MIT Press 1990)

BOOK REVIEW: The Age of Electronic Messages by John G. Truxal (MIT Press 1990)

This book, based on a course offered since 1979 at SUNY Stony Brook, offers an introduction for college undergraduates to the technology of communications. As part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's New Liberal Arts Program it stems from a belief that "a liberal education...should involve...

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Veröffentlicht in:SIGCHI bulletin 1991, Vol.23 (3), p.70-71
1. Verfasser: Hoetker, Glenn P.
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