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Titolo: | Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and the politics of design / / edited by James Leach and Lee Wilson |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London England : , : The MIT Press, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.4834 |
Soggetto topico: | Information technology - Social aspects |
Technological innovations - Social aspects | |
Community development | |
Internet and indigenous peoples | |
Computers and civilization | |
Persona (resp. second.): | WilsonLee <1966-> |
LeachJames <1969-> | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; Contributors; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Subversion, conversion, development |
ISBN: | 0-262-32249-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825232003321 |
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