Lucy A. Suchman, Lucille Alice Suchman

Gebundenes Buch

Human-Machine Reconfigurations

Plans and Situated Actions

Beschreibung

This 2007 book is about how human actions and technological artifacts are intertwined.

Autor

Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. She is also the Co-Director of Lancaster's Centre for Science Studies. Before her post at Lancaster University, she spent 20 years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Her research focused on the social and material practices that make up technical systems, which was explored through critical studies and experimental and participatory projects in new technology design. In 2002, she received the Diana Forsythe Prize for Outstanding Feminist Anthropological Research in Science, Technology and Medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 627g
• ISBN-13: 9780521858915
• ISBN-10: 0521858917
• Artikelnr.: 23245504