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U1 What is IT?

U2 Laying IT out

U3 Presenting IT

U4 Specialising IT

U5 Naming IT

U6 Forming IT

U7 Tracking IT

U8 Picturing IT

U9 Mailing IT

U10 Chatting IT

A1 Researching IT

A2 Bibliography

A3 Index of Terms

A4 IRC Corpus

A5 SMS Corpus

 

Text Messaging

Language of Internet Chat

 

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Picturing IT

 

Mapping meanings on to electronic space....

This unit is about virtual space: the way that information technology is visualised in extended comparisons and imagery. It introduces ideas about metaphors, symbols and icons and develops the idea of semantic field and relates these to the values and assumptions they imply.

Everything we do with a computer is mediated through the language, imagery and metaphors of the interface. What do the choices of such imagery, verbal and pictorial, reveal?

 

Intercultural Communication in Virtual Environments Download (PDF format):"Collaboration and Communication in Multi-User Virtual Environments: A comparison of Desktop and Immersive Virtual Reality Systems for Molecular Visualization".
Metaphors and Society A philosophical introduction to how we use metaphors
Conceptual Metaphor Home Page Research tool for the study of 'conceptual metaphor systems'