Entertainment technology and tomorrow's information services

✍ Scribed by Myburgh, Sue

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 15 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199802)49:2<184::aid-asi9>3.0.co;2-7

✦ Synopsis

security, and administration) are still largely unknown. It would There is no question that there is a great increase in the amount and diversity of material available digitally-but will this nec-therefore be instructive, as the Web develops, to consider Oravec's genre-responsive design as a focus for concentrating on essarily mean that we will somehow find more leisure time to watch more TV-albeit in distance mode with the assistance of the ethical and social dimensions of CSCW applications via the Web. some sort of screen-based, remote control-operated navigation systems? Will parents permit their children to play video games instead of doing their homework? Or will the video games become the homework? Leslie Regan Shade Kinney asserts (p. 57) that ''much of the construction of Constructive Advice the 'Information Superhighway' is taking place for the specific 221 Patterson Ave.

purpose of delivering entertainment services.'' I get the feeling Ottawa, Ontario K1S 1Y4, Canada that I have missed something here, so let me draw an analogy. E-mail: shade