The Sixth Language: Learning a Living in the Internet Age - Hardcover

Logan, Robert K

 
9780773732513: The Sixth Language: Learning a Living in the Internet Age
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0773732519 ISBN 13: 9780773732513
Publisher: Stoddart Publishing,Canada, 2001

Synopsis

The Internet, proposes Logan (physics and education, U. of Toronto), constitutes a new link in an evolutionary chain of languages that include speech, writing, mathematics, science, and computing. Expanding on the communications theories of Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis, he argues that computers and the Internet will increasingly change how people work and learn, and urges readers to become lifelong students. Parts of the study were published in his 1995 The Fifth Language . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Synopsis

The Internet, proposes Logan (physics and education, U. of Toronto), constitutes a new link in an evolutionary chain of languages that include speech, writing, mathematics, science, and computing. Expanding on the communications theories of Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis, he argues that computer

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Publisher
Stoddart Publishing,Canada
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0773732519
ISBN 13 
9780773732513
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
318

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