Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412806216 ISBN 13: 9781412806213

Verlag: Routledge, 2006

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"A valuable addition to our growing understanding of the wide-ranging implications of new technologies.... Machines That Become Us offers a rich compendium of insights into why we think new machines both 'improve' and 'jumble' our lives." - Steve Woolgar, Chair of Marketing, Said Business School, University of Oxford "Machines That Become Us is very much focused on the empirical understanding of information technologies. This kind of work is sorely needed as such technologies become more and more present in everyday life. James Katz is to be commended for putting together a highly successful volume." - Mark Poster, professor of history, University of California, Irvine "Machines That Become Us represents a major interdisciplinary work.... The process of machines 'becoming us' no longer can be left to cognitive or computer sciences alone, but needs a deep, global view focusing on social practices, including everyday changes in human life; that is what Katz's book does with theoretical passion." - Patrizia Calefato, professor, Dipartimento di Pratiche linguistiche e analisi di testi, Universita degli studi di Bari"

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Social critics and artifi cial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. Many among the general population seem to have shared this fear of a dehumanized future. But how are people in the twenty-fi rst century actually reacting to the ever-expanding array of gadgets and networks at their disposal? Is computer anxiety a signifi cant problem, paralyzing and terrorizing millions, or are ever-proliferating numbers of gadgets being enthusiastically embraced? Machines that Become Us, now in paperback, explores the increasingly intimate relationship between people and their personal communication technologies.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1412806216
• ISBN 13: 9781412806213
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350
• Herausgeber: Katz James E.