Subversion, Conversion, Development: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design

Bys: Gregers Petersen, Laura Watts, Michael Christie

Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.

This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption; they include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, "DIY cultures," and other nonmainstream models...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262525836
• ISBN13: 9780262525831
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher