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

• Autore: Becker Christoph (Director of the Digital Curation Institute)
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2023]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.48/34
• Soggetto topico: Electronic data processing - Social aspects; Computer systems - Environmental aspects; Information technology - Social aspects; Sustainable development
• Soggetto non controllato: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects; COMPUTERS / Information Technology
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Insolvent
• ISBN: 9780262374651; 0-262-37465-X; 0-262-37466-8; 9780262545600
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910741389303321
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