ICSM Rhetoric of Cybernetics
Cybernetics & the Future:
Cybernetics
Cybernetics in literature
Cybernetics--Social aspects
Twenty-first century--Forecasts
Civilization, Modern--21st century
Forecasting
Forecasting--United States
Social Prediction
Social change--Forecasting
United States--Civilization--21st century--Forecasting
Technology & the Future:
Technological forecasting
Technology and civilization
Technology and civilization--Forecasting
Technological innovations
Technology--Social aspects
Technology in literature
Nanotechnology
Outer space--Exploration
Space colonies
Medical technology--Forecasting
Medical innovations
Medical innovations--Forecasting
Medical innovations--Social aspects
Biotechnology
Biotechnology--Social aspects
Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects
Genetic engineering
Human cloning
Food--Biotechnology
Genetically modified foods
Agricultural innovations
Science--Social aspects
Science and civilization
Embodied Information Processing:
Cognition
Cognition--Philosophy
Cognition--Social aspects
Cognition and culture
Thought and thinking
Human information processing
Knowledge, Theory of
Knowledge, Sociology of
Mind and body
Brain
Brain--Localization of functions
Brain mapping
Left and right (Psychology)
Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology--Philosophy
Computerized Information Processing:
Computers
Computers--History
Computers--Social aspects
Computers and civilization
Human-computer interaction
Human-machine systems
Computers in literature
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects
Artificial life
Information theory
Information technology--History
Information technology--Social aspects
Information society
Information society--Social aspects
Information society--United States
Robotics and Beyond:
Robots
Androids
Conscious automata
Robotics--Moral and ethical aspects
Robotics--Human factors
Cyborgs
Bionics
Virtual Realities:
Virtual reality
Virtual reality--Philosophy
Virtual reality--Social aspects
Virtual reality in literature
Cyberspace--Social aspects
Shared virtual environments
Internet--Social aspects
Internet--Psychological aspects
Online identities
Online identities--Social aspects
Computer networks--Social aspects
Social media
Online social networks
Online social networks--Social aspects
Online social networks--United States
Digital electronics--Social aspects
Rhetoric & Writers:
Language and languages--Philosophy
Biolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Communication and culture
Communication in science
Communication and technology
Communication--Technological innovations
Computational linguistics
Technology--Terminology
Virtual reality--Terminology
Language and the Internet
Digital communications
Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957
Brand, Stewart
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997--Criticism and interpretation
Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation
Literature and science
Science in literature
Literature and technology
Technology in literature
Science fiction
Science fiction--History and criticism
Cybernetics
Cybernetics in literature
Cybernetics--Social aspects
Twenty-first century--Forecasts
Civilization, Modern--21st century
Forecasting
Forecasting--United States
Social Prediction
Social change--Forecasting
United States--Civilization--21st century--Forecasting
Technology & the Future:
Technological forecasting
Technology and civilization
Technology and civilization--Forecasting
Technological innovations
Technology--Social aspects
Technology in literature
Nanotechnology
Outer space--Exploration
Space colonies
Medical technology--Forecasting
Medical innovations
Medical innovations--Forecasting
Medical innovations--Social aspects
Biotechnology
Biotechnology--Social aspects
Biotechnology--Moral and ethical aspects
Genetic engineering
Human cloning
Food--Biotechnology
Genetically modified foods
Agricultural innovations
Science--Social aspects
Science and civilization
Embodied Information Processing:
Cognition
Cognition--Philosophy
Cognition--Social aspects
Cognition and culture
Thought and thinking
Human information processing
Knowledge, Theory of
Knowledge, Sociology of
Mind and body
Brain
Brain--Localization of functions
Brain mapping
Left and right (Psychology)
Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology--Philosophy
Computerized Information Processing:
Computers
Computers--History
Computers--Social aspects
Computers and civilization
Human-computer interaction
Human-machine systems
Computers in literature
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects
Artificial life
Information theory
Information technology--History
Information technology--Social aspects
Information society
Information society--Social aspects
Information society--United States
Robotics and Beyond:
Robots
Androids
Conscious automata
Robotics--Moral and ethical aspects
Robotics--Human factors
Cyborgs
Bionics
Virtual Realities:
Virtual reality
Virtual reality--Philosophy
Virtual reality--Social aspects
Virtual reality in literature
Cyberspace--Social aspects
Shared virtual environments
Internet--Social aspects
Internet--Psychological aspects
Online identities
Online identities--Social aspects
Computer networks--Social aspects
Social media
Online social networks
Online social networks--Social aspects
Online social networks--United States
Digital electronics--Social aspects
Rhetoric & Writers:
Language and languages--Philosophy
Biolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Communication and culture
Communication in science
Communication and technology
Communication--Technological innovations
Computational linguistics
Technology--Terminology
Virtual reality--Terminology
Language and the Internet
Digital communications
Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964
Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957
Brand, Stewart
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997--Criticism and interpretation
Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation
Literature and science
Science in literature
Literature and technology
Technology in literature
Science fiction
Science fiction--History and criticism
The following journals, specifically devoted to various aspects of cybernetics, are available full text from the IC databases listed for the dates shown.
- Biological Cybernetics : Academic Search Premier: 1996--one year ago.
- Control and Cybernetics: Academic OneFile: 2011--present.
- Cybernetics and Systems Analysis: Academic Search Premier: 2010--one year ago.
- International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics: ABI/INFORM: 2008--one year ago.
JSTOR : covers a wide range of scholarly journals in all disciiplines, beginning with the first issue of each one. This provides 100% full text access to articles from not only the first half of the 20th century but even the second half of the 19th. Be aware, however, that at the other end of the date range articles don't appear in JSTOR until at least 1-2 years after publication.
JSTOR offers only a Keyword search of its complete full text, so retrievals are large, but the relevancy ranking does a good job of putting the strongest matches on the first few pages. This relevancy ranking does not weigh date, however, and will display a mix of articles written decades apart. So if your topic is time sensitive, be alert to publication dates.
Note: a search on "cybernetics" gets 6,000 retrievals and scanning the titles in the first couple of pages of results will give you a good sense of how many directions this topics may be taken. And take advantage of the historical depth here: searching "cybernetics" and limiting the date range to 1940-1955 retrieves almost 200 articles written in the earliest days of this concept.
User Advisory: The academic journals covered here feature numerous book reviews, so it's a good idea to tic the "Article" limit below the search slots so you won't be overwhelmed by book reviews on your topic.
Project Muse : provides 100% full text of mostly scholarly journals, but its coverage is entirely current--mainly spanning the only last 10-15 years. Muse uses a "black box" search approach--you enter your search terms in one slot with no designated field options. This broad approach to searching tends to generate large retrievals--over 800 for "cyberneticss"--so it's best to be as specific as possible. And note--once you have a retrieval set, you can add more search terms by clicking "Modify Search" at the top.
PsycINFO : The American Psychological Association use their own Subject vocabulary (called "Descriptors"), so a visit to the "Thesaurus" above the search slots is usually a good idea. "Cybernetics" is availabe as a Descriptor here and retrieves 900 articles.
PsycINFO deals only with scholarly literature, much of it assuming a graduate-level understanding of the discipline. But among these you may find interesting, accessible articles on your topic.
User Advisory: If what you're searching for are "journals" in "English," it's a good idea to check those boxes below the search slots.
General OneFile is the most user friendly of our comprehensive databases--covering virtually any topic from a wide range of disciplinary angles. Use the default Subject search to find an appropriate Subject Heading for your topic -- Cybernetics, Artificial intelligence, Artificial life, and Robotics are all available--and then open the "Subdivisions" link underneath. These will help you focus on a particular facet. Especially useful for prediction will be "Forecasts and Trends ,"and "Innovations."
If the best available Subdivision is still too broad, open the set of articles and add Keywords in the "Search within these Results" slot at the upper left.
ProQuest Research Library : Comprehensive database with ample full text and good resources in science and technology. Cybernetics is available here as a Subject search. Or try running two Subject searchs and in one slot put--Future or Forecasts or Innovations or Trends--and in the other the Subject Heading for your topic, for example Cybernetics or Genetic Engineering or Artificial Intelligence.
Note: when you select a Subject search from the drop down menu to the right of the search slot, you will see a "Look up Subjects" link appear to the right, where you can browse the available Subject Headings for your topic.
Academic Search Premier : Another compreshensive database with ample full text and good resources in science and technology. The Subject headings available here include "Cybernetics," "Cybernetics--Social aspects," Artificial Intelligence," and "Bionics." Also available are "Forecasting," "Trends," and "Technological Innovations." Try OR-ing these three together as Subjects in one slot and in the other run a Subject search on your topic--for example "Nanotechnology," "Power Resources," "Human Cloning," or "Outer Space--Exploration."
Note: Academic Search Premier Subject Headings may be browsed in advance by clicking the "Subject Terms" link above the search slots.
ScienceDirect : Because it’s a large database with a great deal of full text, the absence of Subject searching means that your Keyword searches will often retrieve large sets of articles, many of which mention but don’t discuss your search term(s). One way around this is to limit your initial search to the “Abstract Title Keyword” field. Once you have found an article that sounds on-target, open it and click the “Recommended Articles” link at the top right. This will open a range of articles on the same topic.
User Advisory: Uncheck "Books" below the search slots: we don't have access to the books in this database. And if you open the "Dates" drop-down menu you'll find a much wider range of options than the default 10 year span.
JSTOR offers only a Keyword search of its complete full text, so retrievals are large, but the relevancy ranking does a good job of putting the strongest matches on the first few pages. This relevancy ranking does not weigh date, however, and will display a mix of articles written decades apart. So if your topic is time sensitive, be alert to publication dates.
Note: a search on "cybernetics" gets 6,000 retrievals and scanning the titles in the first couple of pages of results will give you a good sense of how many directions this topics may be taken. And take advantage of the historical depth here: searching "cybernetics" and limiting the date range to 1940-1955 retrieves almost 200 articles written in the earliest days of this concept.
User Advisory: The academic journals covered here feature numerous book reviews, so it's a good idea to tic the "Article" limit below the search slots so you won't be overwhelmed by book reviews on your topic.
Project Muse : provides 100% full text of mostly scholarly journals, but its coverage is entirely current--mainly spanning the only last 10-15 years. Muse uses a "black box" search approach--you enter your search terms in one slot with no designated field options. This broad approach to searching tends to generate large retrievals--over 800 for "cyberneticss"--so it's best to be as specific as possible. And note--once you have a retrieval set, you can add more search terms by clicking "Modify Search" at the top.
PsycINFO : The American Psychological Association use their own Subject vocabulary (called "Descriptors"), so a visit to the "Thesaurus" above the search slots is usually a good idea. "Cybernetics" is availabe as a Descriptor here and retrieves 900 articles.
PsycINFO deals only with scholarly literature, much of it assuming a graduate-level understanding of the discipline. But among these you may find interesting, accessible articles on your topic.
User Advisory: If what you're searching for are "journals" in "English," it's a good idea to check those boxes below the search slots.
General OneFile is the most user friendly of our comprehensive databases--covering virtually any topic from a wide range of disciplinary angles. Use the default Subject search to find an appropriate Subject Heading for your topic -- Cybernetics, Artificial intelligence, Artificial life, and Robotics are all available--and then open the "Subdivisions" link underneath. These will help you focus on a particular facet. Especially useful for prediction will be "Forecasts and Trends ,"and "Innovations."
If the best available Subdivision is still too broad, open the set of articles and add Keywords in the "Search within these Results" slot at the upper left.
ProQuest Research Library : Comprehensive database with ample full text and good resources in science and technology. Cybernetics is available here as a Subject search. Or try running two Subject searchs and in one slot put--Future or Forecasts or Innovations or Trends--and in the other the Subject Heading for your topic, for example Cybernetics or Genetic Engineering or Artificial Intelligence.
Note: when you select a Subject search from the drop down menu to the right of the search slot, you will see a "Look up Subjects" link appear to the right, where you can browse the available Subject Headings for your topic.
Academic Search Premier : Another compreshensive database with ample full text and good resources in science and technology. The Subject headings available here include "Cybernetics," "Cybernetics--Social aspects," Artificial Intelligence," and "Bionics." Also available are "Forecasting," "Trends," and "Technological Innovations." Try OR-ing these three together as Subjects in one slot and in the other run a Subject search on your topic--for example "Nanotechnology," "Power Resources," "Human Cloning," or "Outer Space--Exploration."
Note: Academic Search Premier Subject Headings may be browsed in advance by clicking the "Subject Terms" link above the search slots.
ScienceDirect : Because it’s a large database with a great deal of full text, the absence of Subject searching means that your Keyword searches will often retrieve large sets of articles, many of which mention but don’t discuss your search term(s). One way around this is to limit your initial search to the “Abstract Title Keyword” field. Once you have found an article that sounds on-target, open it and click the “Recommended Articles” link at the top right. This will open a range of articles on the same topic.
User Advisory: Uncheck "Books" below the search slots: we don't have access to the books in this database. And if you open the "Dates" drop-down menu you'll find a much wider range of options than the default 10 year span.
Few databases offer 100% full text. Most retrieve a mix of full text articles and article "citations"--article title, author(s), publication info, and usually an "abstract" or one-prargraph summary of the content. When a citation makes you want the full text, look below it for this icon:
Clicking "GETIT" checks (almost all) the IC Library's other databases to see if any offers the full text of the article--or if the Library has a print subscription to the journal in which the article appeared.
Clicking "GETIT" checks (almost all) the IC Library's other databases to see if any offers the full text of the article--or if the Library has a print subscription to the journal in which the article appeared.
- "GETIT" will usually find the full text in another database and open it in a new window.
- If none of our databases can access the full text but we have a print subsciption to the journal, "GETIT" will retrieve the Library catalog record for the journal so that you can see if the date of the article falls within the date range we have on hand.
- If full text is not available from any database or from a print subsciption, "GETIT" will provide a link to the IC Library's Interlibrary Loan. Log in (same as your IC e-mail)--and set up your account if you've never used it before. "GETIT" will have populated the article request form with all the necessary information and you simply submit the request elecrtonically. Most articles are supplied as digital files and will be sent to you via e-mail when they arrive.
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- Cybernetic Intelligence
- Artificial life
- Genesis Redux : Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life
- Allure of Machinic Life : Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence and the New Al
- Human No More : Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology
- Mind Brain and the Elusive Soul : Human Systems of Cognitive Science and Religion
- Abstract Sex : Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire
- Cybernetic Revolutionaries : Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile
- Holistic Darwinism : Synergy, Cybernetics, and the Bioeconomics of Evolution
- Culture of Improvement : Technology and the Western Millennium
- Mechanical Mind in History
- Between Human and Machine : Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
- Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917-1989
- Evolutionary Trajectory : The Growth of Information in the History and Future of Earth
- Science of Synthesis : Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory
- Posthuman Metamorphosis : Narrative and Systems
- Biotechnology and the Human Good
- Electronic Mediations: Summa Technologiae
- Technophobia! : Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology
- Cyberpunk
- Living with Cyberspace : Technology and Society in the 21st Century
- Interactive Realism : The Poetics of Cyberspace
- Hello Avatar : Rise of the Networked Generation
- Living with Cyberspace : Technology and Society in the 21st Century
- Future Without a Past : The Humanities in a Technological Society
- Remodelling Communication: From WWII to the WWW
- Rhetorics and Technologies : New Directions in Communication
- Modern Invention of Information : Discourse, History, and Power
- Control And Ability : Towards A Biocybernetics Of Language
- How the Gene Got its Groove : Figurative Language, Science, and the Rhetoric of the Real
- Texture : Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload
- Reshaping Communications : Technology, Information and Social Change
- Semantics of Science
- Dark Hero of the Information Age : In Search of Norbert Wiener the Father of Cybernetics
- Modeling and Computations in Dynamical Systems : In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversiary of the Birth of John von Neumann
- Understanding Gregory Bateson : Mind, Beauty, and the Sacred Earth
- Tribute to Stafford Beer
- Clock of the Long Now : Time and Responsibility: the Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer by Stewart Brand
- William S. Burroughs
- Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade : Or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism
- Cyberpunk and Cyberculture : Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson
Cybernetics:
Futurology:
- American Society for Cybernetics See especially the full text resources under "Foundations": Defining Cybernetics, Cybernetics Prehistory, Cybernetics Timeline, History Resources, and Macy Conferences.
- Principia Cybernetica Web See in particular the "Theory" section and the electronic library under "Reference."
- Radical Contructivism Some heavy-duty theorizing here (you might want to start with the Key to Radical Constructivism), but fascinating full-text available under Books, Papers, and Periodicals.
- The Observer Web Cybernetically inclined resources on the biology of cognition.
- Cybernetics society What's most useful at this U.K. organization's Web site is the Short Historical Introduction to Cybernetics and the Links page.
- Hypertext, Cybernetics, Cyborgs, & Virtual Realities: Digital Communities: Linked Web resources.
- "The Cybernetics scare and the Origins of the Internet" Short, interesting article by Slava Gerovitch.
- Cyborgs: a gateway of links.
- Papers on Cybernetics and Systems Science
Futurology:
- Institute for the Future: A non-profit silicon valley think tank, their Web site offers lots of linked content on the future of science and technology. Look in particular at the Projects page, with particular attention to the "Global Landscape," "People + Technology," and "Body + Mind" categories at the top. Also check the "Future Now" blog.
- Future Agenda: a project of Vodafone, the wrold's largest mobile telecommunications company. As presented here, the future is not quite as navigable as one might wish, but there are some interesting predictions for the patient.
- Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies: Articles: Technology
- World Futures Studies Federation: Check out the "Resources." There also used to be a good gateway to a wide range of related Web sites, but it has been (temporarily?) removed. You can check for its return under "Communications--Links."
- Global Forecasting: Top Foresight Orgs: Comprehensive list of--and links for--international organizations concerned with the future.
MLA is the citation style used by most disciplines in the Humanities. The guides below use the latest 2008/9 standards.
