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Goldsborough, Reid – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
"Cookies" are tiny Web browser helpers and are an example of how the useful can get tossed in with the dangerous through the near hysteria brought about by the real threats of computer viruses, hacking, spyware, spam and phishing. This article briefly discusses antispyware legislation by Congress and the pros and cons of past and future…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Computers, Fear, Computer Security
Peer reviewedReed, Lori – Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2000
Uses discourses on "computer-phobia" and "computer addiction" to describe the cultural work involved and marketing strategies used between 1960s-1990s regarding management of computer fear. Draws on popular discourses, advertisements, and advice literature to explore how the personal computer was successfully connected to middle-class family…
Descriptors: Advertising, Communication Research, Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes
Download full textHerling, Thomas J.; Merskin, Debra – 1995
Since little empirical research has been conducted on adoption of currently available information technology by the advertising industry, a study explored the extent of advertising agencies' adoption of selected information technologies such as online database services and electronic mail. The study discussed data from earlier studies and analyzed…
Descriptors: Advertising, Computer Attitudes, Databases, Electronic Mail
Morgovsky, Joel – 1996
While the Internet undeniably contains an enormous amount of information, community colleges should consider some key issues before joining the headlong rush toward virtual classrooms. First, information can be very difficult to find on the Internet. Although search engines, web databases, and subject directories have been developed to help users…
Descriptors: Advertising, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes
Altman, Don – 1996
This book describes the newest jobs for which people should train and prepare, as well as exploring where the United States is going as a country, a society, and a people. It is designed to help new job seekers as well as veteran workers find a place in the new wave of work, the "digital frontier." The book is organized in two sections. Section I…
Descriptors: Adults, Advertising, Computer Attitudes, Computer Networks
Bromley, Hank, Ed.; Apple, Michael W., Ed. – 1998
This book is organized in three parts that address the following broad topics related to educational computing: discursive practices, i.e., who speaks of educational computing and how (chapters 1-4); classroom practices (chapters 5-6); and democratic possibilities, i.e., the constructive potential of the technology (chapters 7-9). Following an…
Descriptors: Advertising, Aesthetics, Community Development, Computer Attitudes
