Waves and Forms: Electronic Music Devices and Computer Encodings in China

by Basile Zimmermann

An examination of the relationship between technical objects and culture in contemporary China, drawing on concepts from science and technology studies.

Technical objects constrain what users do with them. They are not neutral entities but embody information, choices, values, assumptions, or even mistakes embedded by designers. What happens when a technology is designed in one culture and used in another? What happens, for example, when...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029057
• ISBN13: 9780262029056
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher