Contents

pp v-vi

Series foreword

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp 1-4

Contributors

pp 5-6

Part I - Computer-based signs

pp 7-8

Introduction

pp 9-15

1 - A semiotic approach to programming

pp 16-67

2 - Structuralism, computation, and cognition: The contribution of glossematics

pp 68-91

3 - The shortest way between two points is a good idea: Signs, Peirce, and theorematic machines

pp 92-103

4 - Logic grammar and the triadic sign relation

pp 104-127

5 - Meaning and the machine: Toward a semiotics of interaction

pp 128-140

Part II - The rhetoric of interactive media

pp 141-142

Introduction

pp 143-147

6 - Narrative computer systems: The dialectics of emotion and formalism

pp 148-168

7 - Interactive fiction: Artificial intelligence as a mode of sign production

pp 169-185

8 - Plays, theaters, and the art of acting in the eighteenth century: A formal analysis

pp 186-208

9 - The meaning of plot and narrative

pp 209-221

10 - Face to interface

pp 222-235

11 - Drawing and programming

pp 236-262

12 - Hypermedia communication and academic discourse: Some speculations on a future genre

pp 263-284

Part III - Computers in context

pp 285-286

Introduction

pp 287-291

13 - Computer culture: The meaning of technology and the technology of meaning

pp 292-336

14 - One person, one computer: The social construction of the personal computer

pp 337-360

15 - Hi-tech network organizations as self-referential systems

pp 361-383

Comment: Disturbing communication

pp 384-388

16 - Dialogues in networks

pp 389-421

17 - Historical trends in computer and information technology

pp 422-451

Comment: The history of computer-based signs

pp 452-456