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Subversion, Conversion, Development: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design (Infrastructures) - Hardcover

 
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Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.

This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption; they include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, “DIY cultures,” and other nonmainstream models of technology production. The contributors―leading thinkers in science and technology studies, anthropology, and software design―pay...

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James Leach is Professor of Anthropology and ARC Future Fellow at the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia and Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/CREDO, France.

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Leach, James [Editor]; Wilson, Lee [Editor]; Leach, James [Contributor]; Wilson, Lee [Contributor]; Watts, Laura [Contributor]; Petersen, Gregers [Contributor]; Christie, Michael [Contributor]; Verran, Helen [Contributor]; Diemberger, Hildegard [Contributor]; Hugh-Jones, Stephen [Contributor]; Bala, Poline [Contributor]; Lewis, Jerome [Contributor]; Chambers, Wade [Contributor]; Turnbull, David [Contributor]; Blackwell, Alan F. [Contributor]; Nafus, Dawn [Contributor]; Strathern, Marilyn [Contributor];
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ISBN 10: 026202716X ISBN 13: 9780262027168
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