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Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and the politics of design / edited by James Leach and Lee Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Infrastructures series.
- Infrastructures Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- Community development--Case studies.
- Community development.
- Internet and Indigenous peoples.
- Computers and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London England : The MIT Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-32249-8
- OCLC:
- 882241893
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