Anita Say Chan: 4 books

Book cover of Networking Peripheries

Networking Peripheries

Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism

by Anita Say Chan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014

An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship. In Networking Peripheries, Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological...
Book cover of Beyond Imported Magic

Beyond Imported Magic

Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America

by Henrique Cukierman, Mariano Fressoli, Rafael Dias
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Studies challenging the idea that technology and science flow only from global North to South. The essays in this volume study the creation, adaptation, and use of science and technology in Latin America. They challenge the view that scientific ideas and technology travel unchanged from the...
Book cover of The Inner History of Devices
by Alicia Kestrell Verlager, E. Cabell Hankinson Gathman, Nicholas A. Knouf
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011

Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology enters the inner life. For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our...
Book cover of digitalSTS

digitalSTS

A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies

by Janet Vertesi, David Ribes, Laura Forlano
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

Scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in...
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