Cultures@siliconvalley

by J.A. English-Lueck

Book Overview

After Santa Clara county in California was labeled "Silicon Valley" in the 1970s, it attained a mythical quality in the public imagination. Although much of the myth is surely hyperbole, the region has experienced and continues to experience forces that will shape the future elsewhere in the United States and around the world. The paramount producer of the information revolution, Silicon Valley has become the icon for a lifestyle saturated with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804744297
• ISBN13: 9780804744294
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource in user friendly style

This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in culture, Silicon Valley, and the ethnographic methodology. From the first page, the reader is drawn into the people and unique culture of a technology based community. The author simulaneously paints an accurate portrait of the South San Francisco Bay Area while intoducing us to the complex lives of individuals who live, work, and volunteer there. This book is a sharp contrast to jargon-laced papers or tedious textbooks. Information on the area and culture are wrapped around the narratives of real people and their ability to survive in an exceptionally fluid society.