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Sociological Review Monographs: Cultures of Computing by Susan Leigh Star (1995, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-100631192824

ISBN-139780631192824

eBay Product ID (ePID)848315

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

Publication NameCultures of Computing

LanguageEnglish

SubjectCommunication Studies, Sociology / General, Networking / General, System Administration / Email Administration

Publication Year1995

TypeTextbook

AuthorSusan Leigh Star

Subject AreaComputers, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science

SeriesSociological Review Monographs

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight13.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN95-019807

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"... people interested in computing and culture will find something to catch their attention here." Jack Meadows, Loughborough University of Technology

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal303.48/33

Table Of Content1. From Practice to Culture on Usenet: Nancy K. Baym (University of Illinois). 2. Changing Documents/Documenting Changes: Using Computers for Collaborative Writing over Distance: Eevi E. Beck (University of Sussex). 3. Cyberpunks in Cyberspace: The Politics of Subjectivity in the Computer Age: Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University). 4. Information Systems Strategy, a Cultural Borderland, Some monstrous Behaviour: Mike Hales (University of Brighton). 5. Making Space: A Comparison of Mathematical Work in School and Professional Design Practices: Rogers Hall and Reed Stevens (University of California, Berkeley and Institute for Research in Learning). 6. Contextualization, Cognitive Flexibility, and Hypertext: The Convergence of Interpretative Theory, Cognitive Psychology, and Advanced Information Technologies: Robert Alun Jones and Rand J. Spiro (University of Illinois). 7. Constructing Easiness - Historical Perspectives on Work, Computerization, and Women: Randi Markussen (Arhus University). 8. Creating Cybertrust from the Margins: H. Jeanie Taylor and Cheris Kramarae (University of Illinois). 9.'Pulling Down' Books vs 'Pulling Up' Files: Textual Databanks and the Changing Culture of Classical Scholarship: Karen Ruhleder (Worcester Polytechnic Institute). 10. The Visual Culture of Engineers: Kathryn Henderson (Texas A & M University). 11. Cross-Classroom Collaboration in Global Learning Circles: Margaret Riel (AT & T Learning Circles). 12. Connecting Cultures: Balinese Character and the Computer: Dianne DiPaola Hagaman. 13. Sex and Death Among the Disembodied: VR, Cyberspace, and the Nature of Academic Discourse: Allucquere Rosanne Stone (University of Texas).

SynopsisThis is one of the first collections exploring the range of cultural practices associated with the design and use of computing. Against the background of the information revolution, the volume shows how people come to computers as learners, artists, teachers, designers, gatekeepers, or scientists. The contributors cover a range of topics, from the military to gender in cyberspace, from education to multi-national corporate IT use., This is one of the first collections exploring the range of cultural practices associated with the design and use of computing. Against the background of the "information revolution", the volume shows how people come to computers as learners, artists, teachers, designers, gatekeepers, or scientists. The contributors cover a range of topics, from the military to gender in cyberspace, from education to multi-national corporate IT use., Computers are rapidly diffusing through every organizational, creative and domestic setting, creating cultural changes in all of them. Scholars are using the tools of anthropology, sociology and organizational theory to understand these processes. Some of them are associated with making, and some with using, computers and information technology. Because computers are simultaneously intimate and formal, they offer a good opportunity to study a variety of processes: the development of material culture, the formation of practice-based networks, the fallibility of language, the relationship between power and infrastructure. This book is one of the first collections which explores the range of cultural practices associated with the design and use of computing. Each of the contributors examines specific kinds of work that people do together with and around computers. Each essay examines the ways in which people are brought together in computing practices as learners, artists, gatekeepers and scientists - sometimes as insiders, sometimes as outsiders. The contributors cover a range of topics, from the military to gender in cyberspace, from education to multinational corporate IT use., This is one of the first collections exploring the range of cultural practices associated with the design and use of computing. Against the background of the "information revolution", the volume shows how people come to computers as learners, artists, teachers, designers, gatekeepers, or scientists., This is one of the first collections exploring the range of cultural practices associated with the design and use of computing. Against the background of the "information revolution," the volume shows how people come to computers as learners, artists, teachers, designers, gatekeepers, or scientists. The contributors cover a range of topics, from the military to gender in cyberspace, from education to multi-national corporate IT use.

LC Classification NumberHM258.C845 1995