Subversion, Conversion, Development
Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design
This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption; they include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, DIY cultures, and other nonmainstream models of technology production. 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. The richly detailed accounts presented here challenge the dominant…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Wilson, Lee (The University of Queensland) (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-52583-1
- EAN: 9780262525831
- Produktnummer: 15510700
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H15.3 cm x B22.8 cm x D1.3 cm 372 g
- Abbildungen: 11 figures; 11 Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 372
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
James Leach is Professor of Anthropology and ARC Future Fellow at the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia and Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/CREDO, France. Lee Wilson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland.
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