Description: 1. Car Chases, Elevators and Dogs Named Bear: What Computer- Assisted Reporting Is All About. 2. Journalists in Cyberspace. 3. BBS, AOL, and Other Letters of the Online Alphabet. 4. Special Deliveries: Finding People and Stories with Electronic Mail. 5. Everybody's Talking: Usenet Newsgroups and Internet Relay Chat. 6. Traveling Through Cyberspace: Telnet and FTP. 7. Gopher - Menus by the Millions. 8. An Information Explosion - The World Wide Web. 9. It's Computerized, But It's Not Online, Part I- Information on CD. 10. Finding Meaning with Spreadsheets and Database Managers - An Introduction. 11. Spreadsheets - By the Number. 12. Sorting and Matchmaking - Using a Database Management Program to Find Meaning. 13. It's Computerized, But It's Not Online, Part II - Information on Floppy Disk or Tape. 14. Life, and More Work, After CAR. 15. Legal and Ethical Questions and CAR. 16. The Learning Goes On. Appendix A: World Wide Web Sites. Appendix B: Exercises. For Further Reading. Glossary.

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