Critical Technology: A Social Theory of Personal Computing

ISBN-13: 9781138600164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 151 str.

Graeme Kirkpatrick

Opis

Have we resigned ourselves to a cyber-future that has been decided behind our backs? Why is technology central to the concerns of critical social theory? In developing the PC technologists have borrowed ideas from the human sciences about what people are like, about the nature of meaning and the desirability of some experiences over others

Spis treści

Contents: What does critical theory criticize about technology?; Hacking the first personal computers: the aesthetics of personal computing; The cynicism of the computer gamer; Hacking as 'thwarted vocation'; Gaming publics and technical politics; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Graeme Kirkpatrick