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  1. Department of English and Philosophy, Prudue University Calumet, 46323, Hammond, IN, USA

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Michael Dobberstein teaches writing, desktop publishing, and journalism at Purdue University Calumet. He has been helping to get computers to work right, and helping people work right with computers, for ten years. His research interests are in journalism and finding useful work for computers.

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Dobberstein, M. Computer literacy for the rest of us. Comput Hum 27, 429–433 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01829393

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