Gary Lee Downey

The Machine in Me (eBook, PDF)

An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, he documents the everyday power of technology's dominant image in our society, a force widely regarded as monolithically progressive. The Machine in Me will lead the reader to understand how deeply connected we are to The Machine and how beneficial it would be for us to really understand ourselves and machines as partially configured of the other--we as part machine, machines as part human. In this way, we can begin to see both the power and limitations of technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136679131
• Artikelnr.: 40824989

Autorenporträt

Gary Lee Downey is Director of the Center for Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Images Count 2 We Put You in Control: The
Trade Show 3 Does Productivity Fit? 4 Seducing Money 5 Adapting a Nation
around Automation 6 Beyond Control and Submission 7 Locating Me Inside It:
Coding 8 Locating It Inside Me: Confusion 9 The Making of Experts 10 On the
Replacement of Humans with Machines: A Different Humanism Notes References