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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741389303321

Autore

Becker Christoph (Director of the Digital Curation Institute)

Titolo

Insolvent : how to reorient computing for just sustainability / / Christoph Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2023]

ISBN

9780262374651

026237465X

9780262374668

0262374668

9780262545600

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 pages)

Disciplina

303.48/34

Soggetti

Electronic data processing - Social aspects

Computer systems - Environmental aspects

Information technology - Social aspects

Sustainable development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Just Sustainability Design -- I. Is Computing Insolvent? -- 1. The Design of Sustainability -- 2. Just Sustainabilities and the Debts of Computing -- 3. The Myths of Computing -- 4. Problemism: The Insolvency of Computational Thinking -- II. Restructuring -- 5. Computing's Critical Friends -- 6. Software Is Never Neutral: How Do Values Become Facts? -- 7. People Are More Than Rational: Beware the Normative Fallacy -- 8. Problems Are Framings: The Discordant Pluralism of Just Sustainability Design -- III. Reorienting Systems Design -- 9. Leverage Points for Change: From Insolvent Computing to Just Sustainability Design -- 10. Critical Requirements Practice -- 11. Searching for Just, Sustainable Design Decisions -- 12. A Silicone Ring: Social Responsibility and Collective Action -- Conclusion: This Changes Computing -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book proposes a framework for the design of systems that will advance social and environmental justice along with technical and



economic objectives"--