Richard H. R. Harper

Texture

Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload

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Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we cry (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see what Shaquille O'Neal has to say on Twitter. In Texture, Richard Harper asks why we seek out new ways of communicating even as we complain about communication overload.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-262-28865-1
EAN: 9780262288651
Produktnummer: 27866377
Verlag: MIT Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 340 KB
Abbildungen: 1 FIGURE, 4 TABLES

Über den Autor

Richard H. R. Harper, currently Principal Researcher in Socio-Digital Systems at Microsoft Research, has explored user-focused technical innovation in academic, corporate, and small company settings. He is the coauthor (with Abigail J. Sellen) of The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press, 2001).