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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Infrastructures series.