Designing Culture

Informationen zum Autor Anne Balsamo is Dean of the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is a co-founder of Onomy Labs! a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously! she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents)! a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC that created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She is the author of "Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women!" also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Anne Balsamo is Dean of the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is a co-founder of Onomy Labs, a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously, she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC that created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She is the author of Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women, also published by Duke University Press. Zusammenfassung The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents; Contents: http://designingculture.net/; Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction: 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 Age Notes; Bibliography; Index Women 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.; Deslizate en el Tiempo: Episodios en la Historia de la Comunicacion--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-Pena 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 ...

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Anne Balsamo

Zusammenfassung
The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations.

Inhalt

Contents of http://designingculture.net/ vii
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Taking Culture Seriously in the Age of Innovation 1

1. Gendering the Technological Imagination 27
2. The Performance of Innovation 51
3. Public Interactives and the Design of Technological Literacies 95
4. Designing Learning: The University as a Site of Technocultural Innovation 133
   Conclusion. The Work of a Book in a Digital Age 185
   Notes 199
   Bibliography 255
   Index 279

Women of the World Talk Back: An Interactive Multimedia Documentary (enclosed dvd)