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Textos Filosóficos em Formato Eletrônico
LIVROS DE EDUARDO CHAVES DISPONÍVEIS ONLINE
Eduardo O C Chaves, Informática: Micro Revelações (Campinas, SP, 1985) [Trata-se de uma Introdução à Informática, já bastante datada nas partes em que se refere a hardware e software]Eduardo O C Chaves e Valdemar W. Setzer, O Uso de Computadores em Escolas: Fundamentos e Críticas (Editora Scipione, São Paulo, SP, 1987) [O texto disponível na Internet é parcial, constando apenas da contribuição de Eduardo Chaves.]
Eduardo O C Chaves, Multimídia: Conceituação, Aplicações e Tecnologia (Campinas, 1991) [O texto disponível na Internet é, por enquanto, parcial. Trata-se do primeiro livro publicado no Brasil sobre Multimídia, de autor brasileiro ou estrangeiro. A parte relativa a hardware, software e aplicações está, porém, terrivelmente datada. A parte conceitual ainda se sustenta bem.]
Eduardo O C Chaves, Administração do Tempo (Campinas, 1992) [Pequeno livro sem maiores aspirações, mas útil para os que têm problemas com a administração do tempo]. Quem quiser ler apenas um apanhado da tese central do livro pode ler "Administrar o Tempo é Planejar a Vida".
Eduardo O C Chaves, Tecnologia e Educação: O Futuro da Escola na Sociedade da Informação (MEC/PROINFO, Brasília, DF, 1999 - no prelo, em processo de edição pela Estação Palavra, de São Paulo) [O MEC/PROINFO deve disponibilizar este livro também pela Internet proximamente, em formato PDF (Acrobat Reader). Este é um texto voltado principalmente para o treinamento e a capacitação de professores interessados em usar tecnologia na sala de aula.]
ARTIGOS DE EDUARDO CHAVES DISPONÍVEIS ONLINE SOBRE TECNOLOGIA E/OU EDUCAÇÃO
Eduardo O C Chaves, "Um Resumo do Seminário de Daniel Goleman em São Paulo", trabalho escrito para divulgação à Lista de Discussão EduTec e neste site
Eduardo O C Chaves, Hipertexto (em andamento) [Este texto será disponibilizado apenas na Internet, dado que está em formato hipertexto.
Eduardo O C Chaves, "Distance Teaching and Technology-Mediated Learning: A Brief Discussion", Invited Paper, Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Computing Education (ICECE), Rio de Janeiro, August 1999Eduardo O C Chaves, "Technology and Education", in Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education, edited by Paulo Ghirardelli, Jr, and Michal A. Peteres, published eletronically at http://www.educacao.pro.br, 1999 [same text as in previous item, but now published in a different place]
Eduardo O C Chaves, "Tecnologia e Educação", in Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education, edited by Paulo Ghirardelli, Jr, and Michal A. Peteres, published eletronically at http://www.educacao.pro.br, 1999 [Portuguese translation of previous item, since the Encyclopaedia is bilingual]
Eduardo O C Chaves, "Tecnologia na Educação, Ensino a Distância, e Aprendizagem Mediada pela Tecnologia: Conceituação Básica", in Revista da Educação of the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, 1999
Eduardo O C Chaves, "Filosofia Analítica: A Filosofia como Análise Lógica da Linguagem", in Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education, edited by Paulo Ghirardelli, Jr, and Michal A. Peteres, published eletronically at http://www.educacao.pro.br, 1999 [item published only in Portuguese]
Eduardo O C Chaves, "A Virtualização da Realidade", in Comunicação & Educação, periodical of the Escola de Comunicação e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo, nº 16, December 1999
Eduardo O C Chaves, "Educação, Temas Transversais - e Tecnologia?", in Pesquisa em Educação: História, Filosofia e Temas Transversais, organized by José Claudinei Lombardi (Autores Associados and Universidade do Contestado, SC, 1999)
*Eduardo O C Chaves, "A Tecnologia e os Paradigmas na Educação: O Paradigma Letrado entre o Paradigma Oral e o Paradigma Audio-Visual", in Mídia, Educação e Leitura, organized by Maria Inês Ghilardi Lucena, with the papers presented at the Encontro sobre Mídia, Educação e Leitura, which took place during the 12º Congresso de Leitura (COLE), Campinas, SP, 1999
Eduardo O C Chaves, "Acompanha a Filosofia da Educação a Evolução da Tecnologia?", in Anais do I Congresso Latino de Filosofia da Educação, promoted by the Associação Brasileira de Educação (ABE), July 2000, in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the birth pf Anísio Teixeira.
Eduardo O C Chaves, "'Educação Orientada para Competências' e 'Currículo Centrado em Problemas'", paper written for teachers and students of the Project "Sua Escola a 2000 por Hora" of the Instituto Ayrton Senna
Eduardo O C Chaves, "Avaliação de Software para a Educação a Distância (EAD): Considerações Gerais", paper presented at the VII Annual Meeting of the Associação Brasileira de Educação a Distância (ABED), August 2000
[Mais textos de Eduardo Chaves, sobre outros assuntos, como Ética, Educação Moral, Filosofia da Religião, História da Filosofia, etc., em http://www.chaves.com.br - selecione "Escritos"]
LIVROS DE OUTROS AUTORES DISPONÍVEIS ONLINE
Barry Willis, Distance Education at a GlanceCarlos Seabra, Uma Nova Educação para a Nova Era
CENIFOR, Educação e Informática: Projeto Educom - Ano I (Fundação Centro Brasileiro de Televisão Educativa [Funtevê], Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 1985) [O texto disponível na Internet é parcial, constando apenas da contribuição de Eduardo Chaves] V. Balasubramanian, State of the Art Review on Hypermedia Issues and ApplicationsARTIGOS DE OUTROS AUTORES PARTICIPANTES DO EDUTEC E AQUI DISPONÍVEIS (ordem alfabética)
Antonio Carlos Rodrigues de Moraes, A História como Aprendizado da Leitura
Antonio Carlos Rodrigues de Moraes, Uma Pequena Conversa sobre Avaliação
Antonio Carlos Rodrigues de Moraes, Resenha de "Tecnologia e Educação: O Futuro da Escola na Sociedade da Informação", de Eduardo Chaves
Celso Vallin, Proibido Dar Aula
Fábia Magali Santos Vieira, A Utilização dos Recursos de Ensino em Função das Mudanças Sociais e Tecnológicas Recentes
Fábia Magali Santos Vieira, Avaliação de Software Educativo: Reflexões para uma Análise Criteriosa
Fernanda Maria Pereira Freire, Maria Elisabette Brisola Brito Prado, Maria Cecília Martins e Odete Sidericoudes, A Implantação da Informática no Espaço Escolar: Questões Emergentes ao Longo do Processo
Maria Cândida Moraes, Informática Educativa no Brasil: Uma História Vivida, Algumas Lições Aprendidas
Maria Cândida Moraes, Novas Tendências para o Uso das Tecnologias da Informação na Educação
Raquel de Almeida Moraes, Estado, Educação e Informática no Brasil: das Origens a 1989. O Processo Decisório da Política no Setor
Raquel de Almeida Moraes, Henderson Silva e Luciano Santos de Faria, Reflexões sobre a aula virtual: a participação como fundamento da democracia.
Renato Rocha Souza, Usando Mapas Conceituais na Educação Informatizada Rumo a um Aprendizado Significativo
Wagner Gutterres, Quousque tandem abutere Catilina patientia nostra?
Wagner Gutterres, Deus ex Machina
Wagner Gutterres, O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Wagner Gutterres, O Elefante Cibernético
Wagner Gotterres, Seis Personagens à Procura de um Autor
Wagner Gutterres, "Os Peremptórios" ou "A Roupa do Rei"
ARTIGOS DISPONIBILIZADOS ONLINE PELO PROINFO
Os seguintes artigos (todos em cópias locais, espelhadas de www.proinfo.gov.br/prf_txtie.htm), foram disponibilizados no site do PROINFO do Ministério da Educação:
Ademir Décio Bianconi, Informática Educativa - Razões e Objetivos - NTE e suas Funções - Primeiro Momento
Heloisa T. Argento, Informática Educacional - Falando da Minha Prática
Jorge R. M. Fróes, Educação e Informática: A Relação Homem / Máquina e a Questão da Cognição
José Armando Valente, Diferentes Usos do Computador na Educação
José Armando Valente, Por que o Computador na Educação?
José Armando Valente, A Telepresença na Formação de Professores da Área de Informática em Educação: Implantando o Construcionismo Contextualizado
José Armando Valente e Fernando José de Almeida, Visão Analítica da Informática na Educação no Brasil: A Questão da Formação do Professor
Laura Coutinho, Ensinando na Era da Informação
Paulo Gileno Cysneiros, Professores e Máquinas: Uma Concepção de Informática na Educação
Rogers Maisonnette, A Utilização dos Recursos Informatizados a Partir de uma Relação Inventiva com a Máquina: a Robótica Educativa
Siddharta Fernandes, Rádio: Uma Nova Possibilidade de Comunicação na Escola
Silvia Branco Vidal Bustamante, Repensando a Informática
em Ambientes de Educação Especial
Sonia Schechtman Sette, Márcia Angela Aguiar e José Sergio Antunes Sette, Especialização em
Informática na Educação - Uma Experiência na Formação de Recursos Humanos para Redes
de Públicas de Ensino
Sonia Schechtman Sette, Márcia Angela Aguiar e José Sergio Antunes Sette, Licenciatura em Informática - Uma Questão em Aberto
Vicente Willians, Mudando Paradigmas - Conhecendo a Informática Educacional
A Tecnologia Renovando o
Processo Educativo
Texto produzido pelas professoras Ana Maria e Gabriela, do NTE de Barreiras BA, com
base na leitura do texto: O Ensino e os Recursos Didáticos em uma Sociedade Cheia de
Tecnologias, de Vani Moreira Kenski.
TEXTOS DISPONIBILIZADOS PELO SITE INTELECTO [era INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA (IBED)]
Os textos abaixo estão disponibilizados através do site Intelecto (estavam antes no site do Instituto Brsileiro de Educação-IBED), no endereço http://www.intelecto.net/textos1.htm (era www.alternex.com.br/~ined/texto1.html). Fazemos o espelho dos links aqui para facilitar e garantir o acesso aos textos, mesmo na eventualidade de o site remover os links.
Noções de Educação a Distância: Ivônio Barros Nunes
Educação continuada e a distância de profissionais da Ciência da Informação no Brasil via Internet: Carlos Naves (dissertação de mestrado defendida na Universidade de Brasília, 1998, examinando experiência de curso de educação a distância através da Internet)
Mídia e Conhecimento: Educação a Distância: Arceloni N. Volpato, Arlete Soprano, Elizabete R. Bottan, Francelise Diehl, José Roberto Provesi, Lair Margarida da Rosa, Maria Mersilda Pinheiro, Marisa Marqueze
Educação à Distância: Regulamentação, Condições de Êxito e Perspectivas: Francisco José da Silveira Lobo Neto
A Educação a Distância capacitando professores: em busca de novos espaços para a aprendizagem: Lígia Silva Leite e Christina Marília Teixeira da Silva
"Coisa do Outro
Mundo": O Ensino de Teologia via Internet . Educação à Distância - Relato de
Experiência:
Tecnologias de Comunicação e Informação para o Ensino a Distância na Integração Universidade/Empresa: Dulce Márcia Cruz e Marialice de Moraes
The Experience at UFSC with Training, Retraining, Qualifying, and Formation of Hand Labor for the Globalized Economy: Ricardo Miranda Barcia, Ph.D. - Dulce Márcia Cruz, Msc. / João Vianney, Msc. - Regina Bolzan, Esp. / Rosângela Schwarz Rodrigues
Produção e Projeto de Vídeo e TV Instrucionais em Educação a Distância: Wolfram Laaser
Desenho de Software para o Ensino a Distância: Wolfram Laaser
Universidade de Brasília: A experiência do CEAD 1994/95: Maria de Fátima Guerra de Sousa
Quem tem medo do ensino a distância: Consuelo Tereza Fernandez Gonçalvez
A Educação Democrática: Ilona Roth
Educação a Distância Mediada por Computador (EDMC) - uma proposta pedagógica: Waldomiro Loyolla e Maurício Prates
Issues in Distance Learning: Lorraine Sherry
Questões sobre Educação a Distância: Lorraine Sherry
La WWW como poderosa herramienta didática en la educación a distancia: Max Quiroz Martínez
Algunas consideraciones sobre la educación a distancia en America Latina: Jorge Horacio Fraga Errecart
Educación a distancia a través de las redes avanzadas: Crysos Adonis
Educación a distancia e informática: Alfredo Elejalde Flores
Educación e Informática: Alfredo Elejalde Flores
A Universidade Aberta de Brasília: Carlos Alberto Torres
Kidlink: um projeto democrático: Marisa Lucena
Excesso de informação provoca ignorância: Gilberto Dimenstein
Listagem de Contatos para obter informação sobre cursos a distância e on-line: Gilberto Dimenstein
A educação superior a distância, uma modalidade de educação permanente para a UFPR: Onilza Borges Martins
Algumas definições de educação a distância
Distance education at a glance (educação a distância num relance): Tania H. Gottschalk
Introduction to distance education: Farhad Saba
Under the Hood of the Internet: An Overview of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite: Jason Yanowitz
O site anterior continha ainda estes links, que remetem
para outros URLs e, portanto, podem permanecer:
A Importâcia da Educação a Distância: João Cláudio Todorov
Distance Learning: A Different Time, a Different Place: G.Phillip Cartwright
Teaching with Dynamic Technologies - Part I: G.Phillip Cartwright
Teaching with Dynamic Technologies - Part II: G.Phillip Cartwright
Informática e Educação: uma difícil aliança: Edemilson Jorge Ramos Brandão
Distance Education and the WWW: Daniel Peraya, University of Geneva
Interview with Alan G. Chute: Manager of the AT&T National Teletraining Center in Cincinnati
The "No Significant Difference" Phenomenon: Thomas L. Russell, Director, North Carolina State University
New Tools for Teaching: James J. O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania
The Power of Electronic Mail: Richard Banks and Norman Coombs
Teaching on the Internet: Kimberly H. Updegrove
TeleEducation NB Instructor's Manual & Parents' Guide
TeleEducation NB: Rory McGreal
Uma Incrível Coleção de Textos sobre a Filosofia da Tecnologia Descoberta por Newton Aquiles von Zuben do Departamento de Filosofia e História da Educação (DEFHE) da UNICAMP
The debate over Technorealism versus Techno-Luddism and Techno-utopianism. Click here for an overview of Technorealism.
Kirkpatrick Sale, Howard Rheingold, Mark Stahlman, Steve
Silberman, and Brooke Shelby Biggs
discuss the question: What is it
that you fear most about digital technology's effects?
American Philosophical Association's Newsletter on
Philosophy and Computers (includes
Joe Dorbolo's Internet: International
or Interventional? Sylvia
Austerlic's Internet,
Emerging Culture and Design,
Soraj Hongladarom' s On
the Internet and Cultural Differences and
Charles Ess' Cosmopolitan
Ideal or Cyber-centrism? )
Theodor Adorno's Culture
Industry Reconsidered (from Adorno's book "The Culture Industry: Selected
Essays on Mass Culture.")
Albert A. Anderson's Why Prometheus
Suffers: Technology and the Ecological Crisis.
Dr. Alan Aycock's Virtual Play:
Baudrillard Online
Tad Beckman's Technology in Education
and his The Virtual Neighborhood and Its Social
Implications
Information Technology in Humanities
Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects,
Challenges (American Council of Learned Societies
Walter Benjamin's The Work
of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
Frank Biocca's The Cyborg's
Dilemma: Progressive Embodiment in Virtual Environments (This
extensive essay focuses on how the body feels "present" in virtual environments.
For an additional essay on the concept of presence, see Lombard and Ditton below.)
David Blacker's Philosophy of
Technology and Education: An Invitation to Inquiry. (See Mark Selman's
response to Blacker's essay.)
Albert Borgmann's Supplemental
Reading List (Philosophy of Technology Seminar
Rosie Braidottie's Cyberfeminism
with a difference A long essay which includes the following table of
contents:
introduction postmodernity, post-human bodies, the politics of parody,
the power of irony,
feminist visions on
science fiction, the
cyber imaginary, the
need for new
utopias, and notes.
Philip Brey's Philosophy
of Technology Meets Social Constructivism
Stanley R. Carpenter's When Are
Technologies Sustainable?
Daniel Chandler's Technological or Media
Determinism A long essay which includes the following sections: (1) contents page, (2) introduction, (3) technology-led theories, (4) reductionism, (5) mechanistic models, (6) reification, (7) technological autonomy, (8) the 'technological imperative, (9) technology as neutral or non-neutral,
(10) universalism,
(11) techno-evolution as 'progress,'
(12) theoretical stances, (13) deterministic language, (14) conclusion, (15) references and related readings, (16) relevant links.
Colleen Cordes' As
Educators Rush to Embrace Technology, a Coterie of Skeptics Seeks to be
Heard (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1-16-98. Join the debate on this issue
provided by The Chronicle.)
James Courtney's, David Croasdell's, and David Paradice's Lockean Inquiring
Organizations: Guiding Principles and
Design Guidelines
for Learning Organizations.
Richard Coyne's Designing Information
Technology in the Postmodern Age.
(This is a review of Coyne's book by Pete Ferreira.)
John December's Blinded by
Science? (Editor's Page, CMC
Magazine.)
John Dewey's Democracy
and Education (1916). (This is the complete text, all 26 chapters of Dewey's book
are here.)
John Dewey's The
Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology and also another article The Psychology of
Effort.
John Dewey's The
Theory of Emotion. (1) Emotional Attitudes and part 2 The Theory of
Emotion. (2) The Significance of Emotions.
John Dobson's and Mike Martin's The Ontology of
Enterprises and Information
Systems.
Hubert L. Dreyfus' Highway Bridges and
Feasts: Heidegger and Borgmann on How
to Affirm Technology (Scroll down a little bit for the essay; Dreyfus is also
mentioned in Colleen Cordes' article above.)
Peter Drucker's Knowledge Work
and Knowledge Society: The Social Transformations of This Century. (Drucker's
Edwin L. Godkin Lecture in 1994 at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.)
Peter Drucker's Interview
in Wired with Peter Schwartz.
Samuel Ebersole's Media
Determinism in Cyberspace This web site includes the following interesting chapters:
(1) Preface
(2) Introduction, (3)
Definitions, (4) A Brief History of
Technology, (5) Early
Philosophers of Technology, (6) Man the Prosthetic god,
(7) The Neutrality of
Technology, (8) The
Technological Dilemma, (9) Philosophical Assumptions
in Cyberspace, (10) Conclusions, (11)
References.
Paul Ernest's Social Constructivism as a
Philosophy of Mathematics: Radical
Constructivism Rehabilitated?
Essays on
Constructivism and Education (Collected by the Maryland Collaborative
for Teacher Preparation.)
Andrew Feenberg's Summary
Remarks on My Approach to the Philosophical Study of
Technology. (Good summary)
Andrew Feenberg's Marcuse
or Habermas: Two Critiques of Technology
Andrew Feenberg's From
Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the
Crossroads
Lloyd Fell's A few clues
about autopoiesis terminology (Terminology relating to the position of radical constructivism held
by Ernst von Glasersfeld, Humberto Maturana, Gordon Pask, and George Kelly.)
Frederick Ferre's Philosophy
and Technology After Twenty Years
Frederick Ferre's Philosophy of
Technology (Prentice Hall, 1988. Ferre's book is reviewed here by Carl Mitcham)
Luciano Floridi's Artificial
Intelligence: A Lite Approach
Bill Gates' The Road Ahead.
Denis Gaynor's Democracy in the
Age of Information: A Reconception of the Public Sphere.
Henry Giroux's Doing
Culural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy and
Animating
Youth: The Dismification of
Children's Culture.
Ernst von Glasersfeld's Cybernetics
and the Art of Living (One of the leading representatives of radical constructivism.)
Ruth Guthrie's and James Pick's Teleworking Ethics.
Patrick Hamlett's Science,
Technology, and Society Links (This is the links page from the Program on
Science, Technology, and Society at North Carolina State University.)
N. Katherine Hayles' The
Materiality of Informatics.
Robert Heilbroner's Visions of the
Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (This is a
review of Heilbroner's book as part of the book announcement by Oxford University
Press.)
Michael Heim's The Metaphysics of Virtual
Reality (Oxford, 1993) (Two chapters are included online here and some reviews)
Michael Heim's Humanistic Discussion and the
Online Conference (Click here for Geert
Lovink's interview with Michael Heim in Mediamatic Magazine.)
F. Heylichen's, C. Joslyn's and V. Turchin's What Are Cybernetics and Systems Science? (Part of the web
site Principia Cybernetica.)
Larry A. Hickman's Techne
and Politeia Revisited: Pragmatic Paths to Technological Revolution
(Hickman's essay is a response in part to Langdon Winner's essay Techne and Politeia.)
Don Ihde's Philosophy
of Technology, 1975-1995 (See a short excerpt from Ihde entitled The Phenomenology of
Using the Telephone and also Phillip McReynolds' critique
of Ihde.)
Don Ihde's Whole Earth
Measurements (" What I wish to do in this paper is to look at both
'classical' phenomenology (Husserl in particular) and at Heideggerian hermeneutics
regarding the theme, 'environmental phenomenology,' and show that both approaches are
to be found wanting with respect to the Greenhouse Effect phenomenon.")
Fredric Jameson's The
Political Unconscious (This is an abstract of Jameson's work by Joseph C. Krajkovich;
for an essay on Jameson, see Sean Homer's Fredric
Jameson and the Limits of Postmodern Theory.)
Nancy Kaplan's E-literacies:
Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of
Print. (Kaplan's essay is a response in part to Neil Postman's book Technopoly.)
Murat Karamuftuoglu's A Deleuzoguattarian
Framework for Understanding
Information Systems: A Case of Document Retrieval
Systems.
Douglas Kellner's Crossing
the Postmodern Divide with Borgmann or Adventures in Cyberspace.
Douglas Kellner's New
Technologies, TechnoCities, and the Prospects of Democratization.
Douglas Kellner's Intellectuals,
the New Public Spheres, and Techno-Politics and Globalization and the
Postmodern Turn.
Michelle Kendrick's Cyberspace
and the Technological Real.
Phillip Kent's Computers
- Constructionism - Constructivism: A Brief Reading Study.
Dr. Scott Kimbrough's Lecture Notes on
Borgmann.
Burt Kimmelman's Worldlessness,
Virtual Reality, and the Limits of Technology.
Arthur Kroker's Digital
Humanism: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan.
Thomas Kuhn: Thomas Kuhn: The
Essentials (A brief biography and over-view of Kuhn's work by Frank Pajares in the
Summer 1998 issue of The Philosophers' Web Magazine. Scroll down to the section on
Contemporary Philosophy and you'll see the piece. Just below that see Pajares' synopsis of
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.)
TyAnna Herrington Lambert's Jurgen
Habermas: Luddite Dragon or Defender of the Weak? Effects of
Intertextuality on Meaning in Jurgen Habermas' Toward
a Rational Society (See also Steve Stickle's An Introduction to J. Habermas
Rita Lauria's Virtual
Reality: An Empirical-Metaphysical Testbed ("This essay argues that a
fundamental message of VR may be to illumine timeless philosophical inquiries
concerning the nature of knowing and being and thus to direct our attention to what
Aristotle called the eternal question. What is reality?" See also the
essay by Lombard and Ditton
as well as the one by Biocca,
both of which deal with the concept and experience of presence in VR.)
Nina Lerman's,Arwen Mohun's,Ruth Oldenziel's Versatile Tools: Gender Analysis and the History of
Technology.
Matthew Lombard's and Theresa Ditton's At the Heart of It All: The
Concept of Presence
(The authors present an extensive explication and discussion of the concept of
presence which they define as " a mediated experience that seems very much like
it is not mediated, a mediated experience that creates for the user a strong sense of
presence." Although this is a good start, the definition in my opinion is
problematic: it begs the question by using the concept of presence in order to define
it. See also related essays by Lauria and Biocca.)
Carmen Luke's Technological
Literacy.
Yogesh Malhotra's Knowledge
Management in Inquiring Organizations.
Frank Margonis' Introduction.
Philosophical Pluralism: The Promise of Fragmentation (Although it is not
directly related to the philosophy of technology, this introduction to the 1996 volume of
the Philosophy of Education Society Yearbook does give a good summary of the
range of responses to current problems in education philosophy.)
Humberto Maturana's The Nature of Time
(One of the leading representatives of radical constructivism.)
Leo Marx's Does Technology
Mean Progress?
Marshall McLuhan: Web site on McLuhan
which includes interviews, excerpts
from books, and links; see also Larry Press' article McLuhan Meets the Net.
Phillip McReynolds' Between
Technology and Technique: A Critique of Ihde's
Technology and the lifeworld.
Carl Mitcham's Notes
toward a Philosophy of Meta-Technology. (For areview of Mitcham's book Thinking
through Technology, see Richard A. Dreitrich's book review.)
Carl Mitcham's Notes for a
Hypertext on the Emergence and Transcendence of Computer
Ethics.
Elizabeth Murphy's Constructivism:
From Theory to Practice.
Nicholas Negroponte's Being
Digital (For a review, see Tomothy W. Luke's Digital Beings
& Virtual Times: The Politics of Cybersubjectivity)
Cesar Cuello Nieto's Sustainable
Development and Philosophies of Technology.
Todd Oppenheimer's The Computer
Delusion ( July 1997 article in The Atlantic Monthly ).
Kent Palmer's The Ontological
Foundations of Autopoietic Theory (See Lloyd Fell on the terminology of autopoiesis.)
Paul Pangaro's Cybernetics:
A Definition
Joseph C. Pitt's On
the Philosophy of Technology, Past and Future.
Mark Poster's Postmodern
Virtualities.
Neil Postman's Of Luddites,
Learning, and Life (See also Nancy Kaplan's essay What Neil Postman
has to say...; this page includes a link to Kaplan's essay and contains excerpts from
Postman's book Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Scott
London reviews Postman's Technopoly and The End of Education; see also
David Model's review
of Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death and Technopoly.
Friedrich Rapp's Philosophy
of Technology After Twenty Years: A German Perspective.
Emily R. Reich's Community
and Civic Involvement of Feminist Activists on the Internet.
Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community:
Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
(See Geert Lovink's review of
Rheingold's book.)
Kevin Robins' and Frank Webster's Cybernetic
Capitalism: Information,
Technology, Everyday Life.
Joseph Rouse's What Are
Cultural Studies of Scientific Knowledge?
Beatriz Santana's Introducing
the Technophobia/Technophilia Debate: Some Comments on the Information Age.
Jean-Michel Salanskis' Die
Wissenschaft denkt nicht [Science Does Not Think] (The title is in German but the
article is in English. It attempts to explicate Heidegger's famous -- or infamous --
phrase that science does not think.)
Herbert L. Schiller's Media,
Technology, and the Market: The Interacting Dynamic.
Richard E. Sclove's Technology, Society, and
Democracy: New Problems and
Opportunities (A report to the General Program of the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation
Phil Shapiro's Review of Michael Heim's Electronic Language: A Philosophical Study of Word
Processing (Yale,1989
Stanford Electronic Humanities Review's Special Issue: Constructions of the Mind:Artificial Intelligence
and the Humanities (This is a special issue of the Stanford Humanities Review on
that topic and lists 19 articles ranging from such issues as AI as a
philosophical project and AI and the structure of knowledge to AI research as art and
cognitive science as philosophy.)
Steve Stickle's An Introduction
to J. Habermas.
Kenneth Stokes' A Metatheoretical
Discourse (This web site is a 6-volume hypertext on political economy; the
first three volumes are available. In the author's words, " This book is about how we
might better constitute metatheoretically the putative domain of human livlihood, and
about how its foundations, framework, and concepts, might be defined and
constructed anew." I include it here because it engages a wide variety of
philosophical theories which also form a background for technology.)
Nick Sushkin's Learning Theories
(Summaries of Piaget's theory of learning, constructivism, and Gordon's cognitive
style typology.)
Mark C. Taylor's Rhizomic
Folds of Interstanding
Mark C. Taylor's and Esa Saarinen's Imagologies:
Media Philosophy (Excerpts from their book. See Stephen D. O'Leary's review of Imagologies as well
as a review
by Bas Raijmakers.)
Duane Truex's and Richard Baskerville's The Debate in Structural
Linguistics: how it
may impact the information systems field.
Sherry Turkle's Seeing through
Computers: Education in a Culture of
Simulation.
Paul Virilio's Speed and
Information: Cyberspace Alarm! (See also Louise Wilson's interview with Paul Virilio for
CTHEORY.)
Ron Weber's The Link
between Data Modeling Approaches and Philosophical
Assumptions: A Critique.
Daniel R. White's and Gert Hellerick's Nietzsche at the Mall:
Deconstructing the Consumer (A long essay containing the
following sections: (1) The Church of the Consumer, (2) Decentering the Consumer
Subject, (3) Learning and the Self-transformation of the Consumer (4) The Will to
Power and the Will to Play, (5)New Forms of Empowerment, (6) Interlude: Nietzsche Goes to
Hell (and so do we), (7) "We Gotta Get Out'a This Place"- The Animals, (7) Works
Cited.)
Brent G. Wilson's The
Postmodern Paradigm (The main points are: 1) postmodern perspectives about the world
underlie much constructivist writing, and 2) a postmodernist stance can offer positive,
constructive critiques of instructional design practice; recommendations are offered for
changing instructional design practice.)
Langdon Winner's The Handwriting on the
Wall: Resisting Technoglobalism's Assault on Education and his Cyberlibertarian
Myths and the Prospects for Community
Langdon Winner's Who
will we be in cyberspace?
Langdon Winner's Silicon Valley
Mystery House. (" But if Silicon Valley is the model for cities of the
future, exactly what is the future it holds in store? Which features of the place are the
most salient? Will the place itself matter at all?)
OUTROS LIVROS, ARTIGOS E TRABALHOS
O Livro Verde para a Sociedade da Informação em Portugal (texto aprovado em Conselho de Ministros no dia 17 de Abril de 1997)