ISBN:
9780262322492
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Series Statement:
Infrastructures Ser.
Series Statement:
Infrastructures Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4834
Keywords:
Community development ; Case studies
;
Computers and civilization
;
Information technology ; Social aspects
;
Internet and indigenous peoples
;
Technological innovations ; Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.
Abstract:
Intro -- 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 Time -- 9 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.
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