Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Explorations of Computing as a Social Practice

by Douglas Schuler and Philip E. Agre

Book Overview

This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways to examine how new situations are created through computer use. It contains some of the very first papers on very important topics including the AEGIS disaster, the intriguing new world of MUD environments, and community networks, including a study of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567502598
• ISBN13: 9781567502596
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"