Information Ecologies

Using Technology with Heart
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-262-64042-8
Verlag: MIT Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

A call for informed, responsible engagement with information technology at the local level.The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle ground, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, which they call information ecologies. An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies, and values in a local environment. Nardi and O'Day encourage the reader to become more aware of the ways people and technology are interrelated. They draw on their empirical research in offices, libraries, schools, and hospitals to show how people can engage their own values and commitments while using technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nardi, Bonnie A.

O'Day, Vicki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion User Interface Design & Benutzerfreundlichkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Interface Design, Interaktionsdesign, Application Design

Über Autor(innen)

Nardi, Bonnie A.
Bonnie A. Nardi is Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and Cofounder of Center for Research in Sustainability, Collapse-preparedness, and Information Technology there. She is the coauthor of Acting with Technology (MIT Press).

Bonnie A. Nardi is Associate Professor in the School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of A Small Matter of Programming (1993), and coauthor of Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart (1999), both published by the MIT Press.