Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and the politics of design / edited by James Leach and Lee Wilson.

Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and the politics of design /

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...

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Other Authors: Wilson, Lee, 1966- (Editor), Leach, James, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London England : The MIT Press, 2014.
Series:Infrastructures series.
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Community development > Case studies.
Internet and Indigenous peoples.
Computers and civilization.
Case studies.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Anthropology, cross-cultural encounter, and the politics of design / James Leach and Lee Wilson
  • 2. Liminal futures : poem for islands at the edge / Laura Watts
  • 3. Freifunk : when technology and politics assemble into subversion / Gregers Petersen
  • 4. Postcolonial databasing? Subverting old appropriations, developing new associations / Helen Verran and Michael Christie
  • 5. Sacred books in a digital age : a cross-cultural look from the heart of Asia to South America / Hildegard Diemberger and Stephen Hugh-Jones
  • 6. Redeploying technologies : ICT for greater agency and capacity for political engagement in the Kelabit Highlands / Poline Bala
  • 7. Making the invisible visible : designing technology for nonliterate hunter-gatherers / Jerome Lewis
  • 8. Assembling diverse knowledges : trails and storied spaces in time / David Turnbull and Wade Chambers
  • 9. Structuring the social : software design / Alan F. Blackwell.
  • 10. Design for X : prediction and the embeddedness (or not) of research in technology production / Dawn Nafus
  • 11. Engaging interests / Marilyn Strathern
  • 12. Subversion, conversion, development : imaginaries, knowledge forms, and the uses of ICTs / James Leach and Lee Wilson.

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