ISBN:
9780415920216
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (303 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Machine in Me : An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers
DDC:
306.4/6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Images Count; The Doctrine of Competitiveness; The Cultural Boundary between Humans and Machines; CAD/CAM and Competitiveness; Intervening through Technology Studies; Another Try; 2. We Put You in Control: The Trade Show; Congruence; It's All in the Machine; Where Control Doesn't Fit; 3. Does Productivity Fit?; Tar Baby; Productivity as Burden and Strategy; Living with the Machine; Boxed in by Productivity; Return of the Dominant Image; 4. Seducing Money; Quick Bucks
Description / Table of Contents:
1983: A Glorious Future1987: From System to Commodities; 1990: Living for the Quarterly Report; 5. Adapting a Nation around Automation; Hybrid Humans; Tweaking Boundaries; Negotiating Inside the Code; Resistance from Industry; 6. Beyond Control and Submission; Who Is the Slave?; Was This Iteration?; Authorized Personnel; Passions Inside; Configurations of Agency; Mapping Positions; 7. Locating Me Inside It: Coding; First Transcriptions; Putting Objects into the Machine; Engines of Analysis; 8. Locating It Inside Me: Confusion; ""I Want Control""; ""I Just Want a Tool""; Systematic Confusion
Description / Table of Contents:
9. The Making of ExpertsBirth History; Becoming Hardware and Software; Ownership; Experts in Science?; More Than One Dimension; 10. On the Replacement of Humans with Machines: A Different Humanism; What Might Have Emerged in Industry?; What Might Have Emerged in Education?; What Might Have Emerged in Research?; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
