CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
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Jonathan Steuer
Cyborganic Media Combining Content and Community: The Potential and Pitfalls of WWW Publishing March 3, 1995
In August, 1993, the newly-launched Wired magazine decided to pursue Internet-based publishing. On October 27, 1994, Wired begat HotWired, one of the first commercially-supported content-oriented sites on the World Wide Web. The goal was to create a new kind of online space, one that both permitted traditional magazine-like distribution of content, and one that served as a discussion space in which readers could interact with each other, and with the architects of their online environment, in novel and meaningful ways. In other words, the goal was to combine content and community via the Web. These goals were achieved with varying degrees of success. This presentation will address the difficulties of Web publishing in relation to these goals, highlighting in particular the following:
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