Subversion, conversion, development : cross-cultural knowledge exchange and the politics of design / edited by James Leach and Lee Wilson.

9780262322492 (ebook) :

Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2014]

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1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white).

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This volume explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies, encounters that counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption. The contributors include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, 'DIY cultures', and other non-mainstream models of technology production and consumption. The contributors - leading thinkers in science and technology studies, anthropology, and software design - pay special attention to the specific inflections that different cultures and communities give to the value of knowledge.

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May 05, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.