Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups: Human Dimensions of Groupware and Computer Networking

Jo Ann Oravec

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511574986

Designers, implementers, and users of computer network applications are all deeply involved in the processes of social and cultural change, whether or not they consciously and actively choose to consider these processes. Issues such as community and privacy, dependence and individualism are no longer simply the province of philosophers and social scientists; they are tightly interwoven in the design and use of network applications. Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups explores the social dimensions of the powerful computing applications that are shaping our culture. It addresses design and theoretical issues relating to groupware and other applications of computer networks. It considers computer network applications in terms of the notions of genre and narrative, in a framework that is broadly applicable to the development of a wide range of computing and communication systems, such as virtual reality and multimedia.

’This book is for serious reading and study. It is very readable and brilliantly thought through. The publication makes a huge body of work accessible to those of us who have time for only one book on the subject.’

Ian Alexander Source: Computing

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Dedication
pp vi-vi

Overview
pp vii-x

Introduction
pp 1-15

1 - Evolution of computer application genres: Groupware and other network-based system applications
pp 16-46

2 - On the infinite variety of virtual entities
pp 47-106

3 - The shape of groups to come: Efforts to define, label, explain, and model collaborative activity
pp 107-147

4 - Shared resources and spaces: Lessons from the use of desks, tables, whiteboards, office settings, and video
pp 148-188

5 - Cultural objects and technological dreams: Dependence, autonomy, and intellectual augmentation
pp 189-222

6 - Privacy, anonymity, and agency: Applications of computer networking and the development of social analogues
pp 223-275

7 - Toward a genre-responsive design approach for computing applications
pp 276-316

Bibliography
pp 317-362

Author index
pp 363-373

Subject index
pp 374-389

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