The Machine in Me

An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers

Gary Lee Downey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

1998
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92022-3 (ISBN)

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This remarkable ethnography of computer engineers documents the everyday power of technology's dominant image in society, and suggests that if we see ourselves as part machine, and machine as part human, we will understand its limitations too.

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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.8.1998
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-92022-1 / 0415920221
ISBN-13	978-0-415-92022-3 / 9780415920223
Zustand	Neuware