About Cybermedia

All texts, graphics, and fragments thereof are exclusively mine. While you are free to link to this document or any part of it, no one may reproduce any of it in any printed or digital form without my explicit permission; send e-mail if you seek permission to quote or reprint from this work.

April 7, 1995: This cluster of documents is my first attempt at what I consider a truer realization of hypertext than what is currently practiced in most examples of the form. The texts used in this experimental document come from my master's thesis, which I completed in January 1993.

My master's thesis is titled "The User Interface for Public Cybermedia" (165 pp.). It was completed to fulfill requirements of the Graduate Program in Media Studies at The New School for Social Research (now the New School University) in New York.

I made updates to this document cluster in May 1999, mostly to replace a lot of broken links. I also linked many of the texts to Amazon.com -- but only the ones that are still in print.

Cybermedia Index

• Introduction
  Start here. Or don't. (Really, you can start anywhere.)
  
• McLuhan: Ideas
  A very short course in media studies.
  
• Wiener: Ideas
  A very short course in cybernetics.
  
• Changing Media, Changing Us
  Your brain may work differently than the brain of a person who cannot read. Maybe it also works differently than the brain of someone who has never watched TV.
  
• Cyberspace: Two Flavors
  Not just the same old story, this little essay explores the relationships among the cyberspace of the cyberpunk variety, the one otherwise known as virtual reality, and -- oh, yeah -- the one that many folks refer to as the Internet.
  
• What's Different About Cybermedia?
  Some basic concepts, outlined.
  

  Hypertext Breakdown
  Another cluster derived from my thesis.