1st Edition
Critical Technology A Social Theory of Personal Computing
By Graeme Kirkpatrick
Copyright 2004
151 Pages
by
Routledge
151 Pages
by
Routledge
151 Pages
by
Routledge
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Have we resigned ourselves to a cyber-future that has been decided behind our backs? Why is technology - and our understanding of it - 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. Yet, to date, the... Read more
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.
Biography
Graeme Kirkpatrick
