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Designing Culture
The Technological Imagination at Work
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Artikel-Nr:
9780822344452
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
23.06.2011
Seiten:
312
Autor:
Anne Balsamo
Gewicht:
473 g
Format:
231x154x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Anne Balsamo
Anne Balsamo is Dean of the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is a co-founder of Onomy Labs, a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously, she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC that created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She is the author of Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women, also published by Duke University Press.
A cultural theorist and media designer issues a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies
Contents of designingculture.net/ vii Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Taking Culture Seriously in the Age of Innovation 1 1. Gendering the Technological Imagination 27 2. The Performance of Innovation 51 3. Public Interactives and the Design of Technological Literacies 95 4. Designing Learning: The University as a Site of Technocultural Innovation 133 Conclusion. The Work of a Book in a Digital Age 185 Notes 199 Bibliography 255 Index 279Women of the World Talk Back: An Interactive Multimedia Documentary (enclosed dvd)