| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages). |
| Series |
Infrastructures Series |
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Infrastructures series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
1. Anthropology, cross-cultural encounter, and the politics of design / James Leach and Lee Wilson -- 2. Liminal futures : poem for islands at the edge / Laura Watts -- 3. Freifunk : when technology and politics assemble into subversion / Gregers Petersen -- 4. Postcolonial databasing? Subverting old appropriations, developing new associations / Helen Verran and Michael Christie -- 5. Sacred books in a digital age : a cross-cultural look from the heart of Asia to South America / Hildegard Diemberger and Stephen Hugh-Jones -- 6. Redeploying technologies : ICT for greater agency and capacity for political engagement in the Kelabit Highlands / Poline Bala -- 7. Making the invisible visible : designing technology for nonliterate hunter-gatherers / Jerome Lewis -- 8. Assembling diverse knowledges : trails and storied spaces in time / David Turnbull and Wade Chambers -- 9. Structuring the social : software design / Alan F. Blackwell. |
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10. Design for X : prediction and the embeddedness (or not) of research in technology production / Dawn Nafus -- 11. Engaging interests / Marilyn Strathern -- 12. Subversion, conversion, development : imaginaries, knowledge forms, and the uses of ICTs / James Leach and Lee Wilson. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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Community development -- Case studies.
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Internet and Indigenous peoples.
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Computers and civilization.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Community development. (OCoLC)fst00870818
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Computers and civilization. (OCoLC)fst00872888
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00973131
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Internet and indigenous peoples. (OCoLC)fst01743638
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Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01145049
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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| Added Author |
Wilson, Lee, 1966- editor.
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Leach, James, 1969- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and the politics of design. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London England : The MIT Press, ©2014 viii, 257 pages Infrastructures series. 9780262525831 |
| ISBN |
9780262322492 (electronic book) |
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