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Barret, Edward, ed. The Society of Text: Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Social Construction of Information. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989. BARYP 0-262-52161-X. www-mitpress.mit.edu/
This pioneering work on Hypertext Media presents a series of articles covering a wide range of hands-on problems and solutions for the digital writing environment.
----. Sociomedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. ISBN 0-262-52193-8 www-mitpress.mit.edu/
The companion work following The Society of Text further develops the range of discussion or practical use of the new media.
----. and Marie Redmond, eds. Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. BARXH 0-262-02383-0 www-mitpress.mit.edu/
This text deals with the behavior of users of media and how they react to menus, tasks, etc.
Coyne, Richard. Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to Metaphor. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. COYDH 0-262-03228-7 www-mitpress.mit.edu/ Coyne has coined, as it were, one of the most readable works on information design and the pragmatics of making it work.
Delany, Paul and George P Landow, eds. Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. ISBN 0-262-54073-8, www-mitpress.mit.edu/ Although these articles deal primarily with programming in the electronic texts field, various articles discuss design and text formatting as well.
Finneran, Richard J. The Literary Text in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. ISBN 0-472-10690-2. These articles function as philosophical and practical overviews of the strengths and weakness of the digital environment - excellent secondary resource bibliographies.
Hale, Constance, ed. Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age. San Francisco: Hardwired, 1996. ISBN 1-888869-01-1. The bible of current journalistic and style conventions for the web - also an excellent vocabulary and dictionary of the digital world.
Harrison, Teresa M., and Timothy Stephens, ed. Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University. Albany: SUNY, 1996. ISBN 0-7914-2854-0.
Landow, George P., ed. Hyper / Text / Theory. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1995.
ISBN 0-8018-4838-5.
Esoteric to some, these articles explore the nature of hypertext applications in a variety of disciplines. Landow writes the useful and informative introduction.
-----. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology.
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992.
This marks the emergence of a larger academic discussion of hypertext applications - a must read.
Peek, Robin P., and Gregory B. Newby, eds. Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. PEESH 0-262-16157-5 www-mitpress.mit.edu/ Although a little too specific to managing rather than creating electronic texts, these articles provide much needed guidelines for editorial work at the site level.
Rouet, Jean-François, Jarmo J. Levonen, Andrew Dillon, Rand J. Spiro, eds. Hypertext and Cognition. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996. ISBN 0-8058-2144-9. These articles constitute the most current, most revealing and most useful study of the myth and reality of hypertext formats.
Sharples, Mike, ed. Computer Supported Collaborative Writing. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993. ISBN 3-540-19782-6. This collection of studies examines the success and failure of various collaborative strategies in various electronic environments.
Shillingsburg, Peter. Scholarly Editing in the Computer Age: Theory and Practice. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986. This small volume contains a very comprehensive discussion of the history and development of the electronic text environment.
Wilks, Yorick . et al. Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. WILWH 0-262-23182-4 www-mitpress.mit.edu/
Primarily aimed at linguists, this detail discussion provides an historic overview of dictionary history along with its digital transformation.