The cultures of computing / edited by Susan Leigh Star.

Other author Star, Susan Leigh, 1954-2010
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford, UK. ; Cambridge, MA, USA : Blackwell Publisher, 1995.
Description282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSociological review monograph
Sociological review monograph. ^A512623
Contents From practice to culture on Usenet / Nancy K. Baym -- Changing documents/documenting changes : using computers for collaborative writing over distance / Eevi E. Beck -- Cyberpunks in cyberspace : the politics of subjectivity in the computer age / Paul N. Edwards -- Connecting cultures : Balinese character and the computer / Dianne DiPaola Hagaman -- Information systems strategy, a cultural borderland, some monstrous behaviour / Mike Hales -- Making space : a comparison of mathematical work in school and professional design practices / Rogers Hall and Reed Stevens -- Contextualization, cognitive flexibility, and hypertext : the convergence of interpretive theory, cognitive psychology, and advanced information technologies / Robert Alun Jones and Rand J. Spiro -- Constructing easiness--historical perspectives on work, computerization, and women / Randi Markussen -- 'Pulling down' books vs. 'pulling up' files : textual databanks and the changing culture of classical scholarship / Karen Ruhleder -- The visual culture of engineers / Kathryn Henderson -- Cross-classroom collaboration in global learning circles / Margaret Riel -- Sex and death among the disembodied : VR, cyberspace, and the nature of academic discourse / Allucquere Rosanne Stone.
Local noteLittle-288929--305131000869-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [256]-274) and index.
LCCN 95019807
ISBN0631192824 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HM258 .C848 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold