Jennifer Gabrys

How to Do Things with Sensors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies Sensors are increasingly common within citizen-sensing and DIY projects, but these devices often require the use of a how-to guide. From online instructional videos for troubleshooting sensor installations to handbooks for using and abusing the Internet of Things, the how-to genres and formats of digital instruction continue to expand and develop. As the how-to proliferates, and instructions unfold through multiple aspects of technoscientific practices, Jennifer Gabrys asks why the how-to has become one of the prevailing genres of the digital. How to Do Things with Sensors explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made sense-able and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

Produktdetails

• Forerunners: Ideas First
• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 174mm x 124mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 106g
• ISBN-13: 9781517908317
• ISBN-10: 1517908310
• Artikelnr.: 59603042

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Gabrys is chair in media, culture, and environment in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is author of Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet and Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics .