Learning Cyberspace: Essays on the Evolution of Media and the New Education [Paperback]

Paul Levinson (Author)

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Levinson is the head of Connected Education, Inc., which offers on-line academic courses in cooperation with The New School for Social Research (New York). His collection comprises essays on the educational potential of cyberspace, ranging from practical reports and a promotional piece on computer conferencing in graduate and undergraduate education to more abstract pieces on such subjects as the historical interaction between human and technological evolution. A technological optimist, Levinson sees on-line text as more open and conducive to dialogue and ultimately more democratic than print medias, despite the stiff entry fee the global electronic conversation now demands. Some readers (and librarians) may challenge the author's optimism, but Levinson's essays offer useful insights into possible advantages of on-line education and the steps needed to permit it to function effectively. Mary Carroll

Product Details

• Paperback: 189 pages
• Publisher: Anamnesis Pr (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963120395
• ISBN-13: 978-0963120397
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,987,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My novel The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel. I've since published Borrowed Tides (2001),The Consciousness Plague (2002), and The Pixel Eye (2003). The Plot To Save Socrates published in 2006 - Entertainment Weekly called it "challenging fun". My science fiction and mystery short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. Nine nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009) have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and eight other languages. I appear from time to time on "The O'Reilly Factor," "The CBS Evening News," "Nightline," "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and other TV and radio programs - I like talking just as much as writing. I'm also a songwriter, and have been in several bands over the years - one had two records out on Atlantic Records in 1960s. My 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme (on HappySad Records) was re-issued on CD by Beatball/Big Pink Records in 2009, and on re-pressed vinyl by Whiplash/Sound of Salvation Records in 2010. I was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009. And last but not least: I'm Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.