Balsamo Designing Culture

The Technological Imagination at Work
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9214-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 307 Seiten

The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balsamo, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents of http://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 279

Women of the World Talk Back: An Interactive Multimedia Documentary (enclosed dvd)

Über Autor(innen)

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.