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UNINA9910464547103321 |
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Titolo |
Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and the politics of design / / edited by James Leach and Lee Wilson |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Information technology - Social aspects |
Technological innovations - Social aspects |
Community development |
Internet and indigenous peoples |
Computers and civilization |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Encounter, and the Politics of Design; 2 Liminal Futures: Poem for Islands at the Edge; 3 Freifunk: When Technology and Politics Assemble into Subversion; 4 Postcolonial Databasing? Subverting Old Appropriations, Developing New Associations; 5 Sacred Books in a Digital Age: A Cross-Cultural Look from the Heart of Asia to South America; 6 Redeploying Technologies: ICT for Greater Agency and Capacity for Political Engagement in the Kelabit Highlands; 7 Making the Invisible Visible: Designing Technology for Nonliterate Hunter-Gatherers |
8 Assembling Diverse Knowledges: Trails and Storied Spaces in Time9 Structuring the Social: Inside Software Design; 10 Design for X: Prediction and the Embeddedness (or Not) of Research in Technology Production; 11 Engaging Interests; 12 Subversion, Conversion, Development: Imaginaries, Knowledge Forms, and the Uses of ICTs; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies, encounters that counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption. The contributors include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, 'DIY cultures', and other non-mainstream models of technology production and consumption. The contributors - leading thinkers in science and technology studies, anthropology, and software design - pay special attention to the specific inflections that different cultures and communities give to the value of knowledge. |
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