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Designing Culture – The Technological Imagination at Work de Anne Balsamo

Designing Culture – The Technological Imagination at Work

Autor Anne Balsamo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 iul 2011
The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the technological imagination, a quality of mind that enables people to think with technology, to transform what is known into what is possible. She describes the technological imagination at work in several multimedia collaborations in which she was involved as a designer or developer. One of these entailed the creation of an interactive documentary for the NGO Forum held in conjunction with the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. (That documentary is included as a DVD in Designing Culture.) Balsamo also recounts the development of the interactive museum exhibit XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading, created by the group RED (Research in Experimental Documents) at Xerox PARC. She speculates on what it would mean to cultivate imaginations as ingenious in creating new democratic cultural possibilities as they are in creating new kinds of technologies and digital media. Designing Culture is a manifesto for transforming educational programs and developing learning strategies adequate to the task of inspiring culturally attuned technological imaginations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822344452
ISBN-10: 0822344459
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 33 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 167 x 231 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Contents; Contents: http://designingculture.net/; Illustrations; AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Taking Culture Seriously in the Age of Innovation; Chapter 1: Gendering the Technological Imagination; Chapter 2: The Performance of Innovation; Chapter 3: Public Interactives and the Design of Technological Literacies; Chapter 4: Working the Paradigm Shift; Conclusion: The Work of A Book in a Digital AgeNotes; Bibliography; IndexWomen of the World Talk Back: An Interactive Multimedia Documentary (enclosed DVD)XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading: Performances of Innovation—Video clips, What Would McLuhan Say?, Reader’s Blog; Interactive Wall Books: The Poetics of Interactivity; Episodes in the History of Reading—An interactive application that offers 36 episodes (in English) about the 27,000-year history of the development of reading and writing.; Deslízate en el Tiempo: Episodios en la Historia de la Comunicación—An interactive application that covers the history of the development of communication technologies. Includes 14 episodes in Spanish.; Science for all Ages: Magnificent Developments in the History of Science and Technology—An interactive application that address the development of science and technology within an Asian context. Includes 16 episodes in English.; Mapping the Technological Imagination—An Interactive Semantic Map of Questions about Technoculture; Technologies of Imagination: Menu of Video Primers—Four video shorts that provide overviews on topics relating to digital culture.; Between the Border and the Interface—Features excerpts from a collaborative theory-performance by Tara McPherson and Guillermo Gomez-Peña on talking across the border at the interface of the digital and the performative, the virtual and the cultural, the racial and the historical.; Learning from the Edge—Features comments from John Seely Brown, Larry Smarr, David Goldberg and Craig Calhoun on the need for collaborative projects that enable us to think differently about global learning networks and new ways of learning in the future; Remix Pedagogy—Includes outtakes from presentations by Cathy Davidson, Scott Fisher, Kate Hayles and Peter Lunenfeld on the paradigm shifts that will and are changing practices of education and learning.; Cultural Memory in a Digital Age—Focuses on presentations by George Lewis, Herman Gray, and Abby Smith who discuss how deafness of the web and its cultural amnesia. “Everyday,” George Lewis reminds us, “the web forgets more than it remembers.”; New Research and Related Resources

Recenzii

“Designing Culture is a roadmap to the technological imagination, provided by one of our best theorists and practitioners. Her architecture of the future rests solidly on her own experiments, inventions, theoretical engagements, pedagogical innovations, and interactive hermeneutics. This is cultural theory at its best, brilliant, bold, and daring.” Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University“Designing Culture is a tour de force, offering a unique vision of the possibilities for a contemporary cultural studies. Refusing to separate research from pedagogy, technology from culture, or innovation from imagination, Anne Balsamo maps the concrete complexities of specific design processes, and opens up new ways of thinking about—and teaching—technocultures in relations to broader socio-political fields. It is required reading for anyone working with contemporary cultures.” Lawrence Grossberg, author of Cultural Studies in the Future Tense

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A cultural theorist and media designer issues a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies