Sandy Kyrish's research while affiliated with Temple University and other places
What is this page?
This page lists the scientific contributions of an author, who either does not have a ResearchGate profile, or has not yet added these contributions to their profile.
It was automatically created by ResearchGate to create a record of this author's body of work. We create such pages to advance our goal of creating and maintaining the most comprehensive scientific repository possible. In doing so, we process publicly available (personal) data relating to the author as a member of the scientific community.
If you're a ResearchGate member, you can follow this page to keep up with this author's work.
If you are this author, and you don't want us to display this page anymore, please let us know.
It was automatically created by ResearchGate to create a record of this author's body of work. We create such pages to advance our goal of creating and maintaining the most comprehensive scientific repository possible. In doing so, we process publicly available (personal) data relating to the author as a member of the scientific community.
If you're a ResearchGate member, you can follow this page to keep up with this author's work.
If you are this author, and you don't want us to display this page anymore, please let us know.
Publications (7)
Good planning is key to the development of a successful online learning program. For online learning (as with any form of distance education), initial planning should primarily center on two issues: identifying the educational goal of the program, and identifying the practical issues of implementation. Planners must recognize that while online lear...
Good planning is key to the development of a successful online learning program. For online learning (as with any form of distance education), initial planning should primarily center on two issues: identifying the educational goal of the program, and identifying the practical issues of implementation. Planners must recognize that while online lear...
This study presents a history of videotex and online services as seen through predictions and forecasts made at different stages. It presents the primarily optimistic expectations for what was then a 'new technology' created by merging the television, telephone, and the computer. In the USA, videotex is often perceived as a major market failure tha...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Temple University, 1993. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 273-293).
Citations
... "We humans are a musical species no less than a linguistic one." (Kyrish 1994) ...
... There ' online': the internet was still too new, too tentative, despite or even because I was a junior and untenured academic I was both able to, and had to, lead. Even government policy, whether here or in the USA, still largely focused on the ' coming' of broadband interactive services which would be delivered by an organized capital convergence of telecommunications and media and was missing the real point of the internet (see Kyrish 1996). The future was here, I thought, but was so unevenly distributed that it could not be seen, at least not inside the Australian academy (to paraphrase the aphorism often attributed to William Gibson). ...
Reference: Lessons from the History of Internet Studies
... Its repetition stems in part from deep, mythical ideas that easily fit electrical technology and its magical, life-giving spark (Mosco, 2004). A communication technology need not even be a success in order to raise these recurring hopes and fears (Kyrish, 2001). The tensions between the utopian and dystopian visions reflect a tension in the technology itself. ...
