Designing Culture

Informationen zum Autor Anne Balsamo is Dean of the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is a co-founder of Onomy Labs, a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously, she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC that created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She is the author of Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women, also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations. Zusammenfassung The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents of http://designingculture.net/ vii Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Taking Culture Seriously in the Age of Innovation 1 1. Gendering the Technological Imagination 27 2. The Performance of Innovation 51 3. Public Interactives and the Design of Technological Literacies 95 4. Designing Learning: The University as a Site of Technocultural Innovation 133 Conclusion. The Work of a Book in a Digital Age 185 Notes 199 Bibliography 255 Index 279Women of the World Talk Back: An Interactive Multimedia Documentary (enclosed dvd)

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The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations.

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Contents of http://designingculture.net/ vii
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Taking Culture Seriously in the Age of Innovation 1

1. Gendering the Technological Imagination 27
2. The Performance of Innovation 51
3. Public Interactives and the Design of Technological Literacies 95
4. Designing Learning: The University as a Site of Technocultural Innovation 133
   Conclusion. The Work of a Book in a Digital Age 185
   Notes 199
   Bibliography 255
   Index 279

Women of the World Talk Back: An Interactive Multimedia Documentary (enclosed dvd)