Information Ecologies
Using Technology with Heart
Seiten
1999
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-14066-9 (ISBN)
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-14066-9 (ISBN)
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This text aims to encourage the reader to become more aware of the ways people and technology are interrelated. The authors draw on their own empirical research in offices, libraries, schools and hospitals to show how people can engage their own values and commitments while using technology.
An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies and values in a local environment. Like their biological counterparts, information ecologies are diverse, continually evolving and complex. This text aims to encourage the reader to become more aware of the ways people and technology are interrelated. The authors draw on their empirical research in offices, libraries, schools and hospitals to show how people can engage their own values and commitments while using technology. The case studies show avenues for participation and engagement with technology.
An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies and values in a local environment. Like their biological counterparts, information ecologies are diverse, continually evolving and complex. This text aims to encourage the reader to become more aware of the ways people and technology are interrelated. The authors draw on their empirical research in offices, libraries, schools and hospitals to show how people can engage their own values and commitments while using technology. The case studies show avenues for participation and engagement with technology.
Part 1 Information ecologies - concepts and reflections: Rotwang the inventor; framing conversations about technology; a matter of metaphor - technology as tool, text, system, ecology; information ecologies; values and technology; how to evolve information ecologies. Part 2 Case studies: librarians - a keystone species; wolf, batgirl and starlight - finding a real community in a virtual world; cultivating gardeners - the importance of homegrown expertise; digital photography at Lincoln High School; a dysfunctional ecology - privacy issues at a teaching hospital; diversity on the Internet; conclusion.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.3.1999 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 11 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 540 g |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI) |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-262-14066-7 / 0262140667 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-262-14066-9 / 9780262140669 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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