Designing culture : the technological imagination at work / Anne Balsamo

Por:

Balsano, Anne

Detalles de publicación: Durham : Duke University Press, 2011Descripción: 288 p. + 1 DVDISBN:

9780822344452

Recursos en línea:

Ressenya a Interacció

Resumen: The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the technological imagination, a quality of mind that enables people to think with technology, to transform what is known into what is possible. She describes the technological imagination at work in several multimedia collaborations in which she was involved as a designer or developer. One of these entailed the creation of an interactive documentary for the NGO Forum held in conjunction with the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. (That documentary is included as a DVD in Designing Culture.) Balsamo also recounts the development of the interactive museum exhibit XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading, created by the group RED (Research in Experimental Documents) at Xerox PARC. She speculates on what it would mean to cultivate imaginations as ingenious in creating new democratic cultural possibilities as they are in creating new kinds of technologies and digital media. Designing Culture is a manifesto for transforming educational programs and developing learning strategies adequate to the task of inspiring culturally attuned technological imaginations. (Font: Editor)

Existencias
Tipo de ítem	Biblioteca actual	Colección	Signatura topográfica	Estado	Fecha de vencimiento	Código de barras
Libro	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 01805	Disponible		1900178820
CD-ROM/DVD	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	CD-ROM 106	Disponible		1900178806

Contents of designingculture.net -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Taking Culture Seriously in the Age of Innovation -- 1. Gendering the Technological Imagination -- 2. The Performance of Innovation -- 3. Public Interactives and the Design of Technological Literacies -- 4. Designing Learning: The University as a Site of Technocultural Innovation -- Conclusion. The Work of a Book in a Digital Age -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
DVD: Women of the World Talk Back: An Interactive Multimedia Documentary

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