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Appropriating Technology

Author : Ron Eglash
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816634279
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Appropriating Technology written by Ron Eglash and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the vernacular engineering of Latino car design to environmental analysis among rural women to the production of indigenous herbal cures-groups outside the centers of scientific power persistently defy the notion that they are merely passive recipients of technological products and scientific knowledge. This is the first study of how such "outsiders" reinvent consumer products-often in ways that embody critique, resistance, or outright revolt.Contributors: Richard M. Benjamin, Miami U; Hank Bromley, SUNY, Buffalo; Massimiano Bucchi, U of Trento, Italy; Carmen M. Concepcin, U of Puerto Rico; Virginia Eubanks, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lisa Gitelman, Catholic U; David Albert Mhadi Goldberg, California College of Arts and Crafts; Samuel M. Hampton; Michael K. Heiman, Dickinson College; Linda Price King; Valerie Kuletz; Lisa Jean Moore, College of Staten Island, CUNY; Brian Martin Murphy, Niagra U; Paul Rosen, U of York; Michael Scarce, Peter Taylor, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Turtle Heart.Ron Eglash is assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Jennifer Croissant is associate professor at the University of California. Giovanna Di Chiro is assistant professor at Allegheny College. Rayvon Fouch is assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Field Guide to Appropriate Technology

Author : Barrett Hazeltine
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080469809
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Field Guide to Appropriate Technology written by Barrett Hazeltine and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Guide to Appropriate Technology is an all-in-one "hands-on guide" for nontechnical and technical people working in less developed communities. It has been developed and designed with a prestigious team of authors, each of whom has worked extensively in developing societies throughout the world. This field guide includes: - Step-by-step instructions and illustrations showing how to build and maintain a vast array of appropriate technology systems and devices - Unique coverage on healthcare, basic business and project management, principles of design, promotion, scheduling, training, microlending, and more - Teachers, doctors, construction workers, forest and agricultural specialists, scientists and healthcare workers, and religious and government representatives will find this book a first source for advice - Step-by-step instructions and illustrations showing how to build and maintain a vast array of appropriate technology systems and devices - Unique coverage on healthcare, basic business and project management, principles of design, promotion, scheduling, training, microlending, and more - Teachers, doctors, construction workers, forest and agricultural specialists, scientists and healthcare workers, and religious and government representatives will find this book a first source for advice

Appropriate Technology Sourcebook

Author : Ken Darrow
Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Appropriate Technology Sourcebook written by Ken Darrow and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1986 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Technology Choice

Author : Kelvin W Willoughby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000314162
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Technology Choice written by Kelvin W Willoughby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to provide a theoretical framework for answering difficult questions evoked by the concept of technology choice primarily by conducting a review of the Appropriate Technology movement and its ideas and experiments.

Introduction to Appropriate Technology

Author : R. J. Congdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Appropriate Technology written by R. J. Congdon and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Macro Policies For Appropriate Technology In Developing Countries

Author : Frances Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042969248X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis Macro Policies For Appropriate Technology In Developing Countries by : Frances Stewart

Download or read book Macro Policies For Appropriate Technology In Developing Countries written by Frances Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the effects of macro-policies and determines which policies have best promoted appropriate technology in developing countries. It explores the political economy of macro-policies, examining which groups in society are likely to benefit from alternative policies and technologies.

Appropriate Technology in Vector Control

Author : Christopher F. Curtis
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351086723
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Appropriate Technology in Vector Control written by Christopher F. Curtis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 1990. It discusses a plethora of both high and low tech options for the control of vectors such as mosquitos in the spread of disease.

Healing Appalachia

Author : Albert J. Fritsch
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813191775
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Healing Appalachia written by Albert J. Fritsch and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing Appalachia is the first book to apply "appropriate technology," or the simplest level of technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, specifically to the Appalachian region. The authors examine thirty low-cost, people-friendly, and environmentally benign appropriate technologies that are concerned with such issues as food preservation, land use, shelter, and transportation. They pay close attention to the practicality of each technique according to affordability, ease of use, and ecological soundness. Details on construction and maintenance and resources for locating further information are included, making this an essential volume for everyone who cares about the future of Appalachia.

The Costs of Connection

Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503609758
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Costs of Connection written by Nick Couldry and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but this book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture and translate our lives into data, and then extract information that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us. The authors argue that this development foreshadows the creation of a new social order emerging globally—and it must be challenged. Confronting the alarming degree of surveillance already tolerated, they offer a stirring call to decolonize the internet and emancipate our desire for connection.

Community Technology

Author : Karl Hess
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780061319587
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Community Technology written by Karl Hess and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Tech Calls Thinking

Author : Adrian Daub
Publisher : FSG Originals
ISBN 13 : 0374721238
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book What Tech Calls Thinking written by Adrian Daub and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "In Daub’s hands the founding concepts of Silicon Valley don’t make money; they fall apart." --The New York Times Book Review From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford professor's spirited dismantling of Silicon Valley's intellectual origins Adrian Daub’s What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley’s world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself. And often, those fancy new ideas are simply old motifs playing dress-up in a hoodie. From the myth of dropping out to the war cry of “disruption,” Daub locates the Valley’s supposedly original, radical thinking in the ideas of Heidegger and Ayn Rand, the New Age Esalen Foundation in Big Sur, and American traditions from the tent revival to predestination. Written with verve and imagination, What Tech Calls Thinking is an intellectual refutation of Silicon Valley's ethos, pulling back the curtain on the self-aggrandizing myths the Valley tells about itself. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.

Directory of Institutions and Individuals Active in Environmentally-Sound and Appropriate Technologies

Author : Robert Maxwell
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483182290
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Directory of Institutions and Individuals Active in Environmentally-Sound and Appropriate Technologies written by Robert Maxwell and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNEP Reference Series, Volume 1: Directory of Institutions and Individuals Active in Environmentally-Sound and Appropriate Technologies presents the dynamic interrelationship of the social system with the natural environment. This book discusses the technological pattern that implies specific approaches to management of resources and is associated with a given lifestyle and value system. This text then explores the remarkable development in human history wherein society, cultural values, patterns of development, and lifestyles reflects the characteristics of technological development. This book discusses as well the crucial role that information plays in the society, whereby sectoral activities such as agriculture, transportation, industry, and rural development require accurate and timely information for the attainment of their goals This book is a valuable resource for social scientists.

The Charisma Machine

Author : Morgan G. Ames
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262537443
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Charisma Machine written by Morgan G. Ames and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences. In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why—despite its failures—the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development. Announced in 2005 by MIT Media Lab cofounder Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop per Child promised to transform the lives of children across the Global South with a small, sturdy, and cheap laptop computer, powered by a hand crank. In reality, the project fell short in many ways—starting with the hand crank, which never materialized. Yet the project remained charismatic to many who were captivated by its claims of access to educational opportunities previously out of reach. Behind its promises, OLPC, like many technology projects that make similarly grand claims, had a fundamentally flawed vision of who the computer was made for and what role technology should play in learning. Drawing on fifty years of history and a seven-month study of a model OLPC project in Paraguay, Ames reveals that the laptops were not only frustrating to use, easy to break, and hard to repair, they were designed for “technically precocious boys”—idealized younger versions of the developers themselves—rather than the children who were actually using them. The Charisma Machine offers a cautionary tale about the allure of technology hype and the problems that result when utopian dreams drive technology development.

Appropriate Technologies for Environmental Protection in the Developing World

Author : Ernest K. Yanful
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402091397
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Appropriate Technologies for Environmental Protection in the Developing World written by Ernest K. Yanful and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first edited compilation of selected, refereed papers submitted to ERTEP 2007. The selected papers either dealt with technologies or scientific work and policy findings that address specific environmental problems affecting humanity in general, but more specifically, people and ecosystems in developing countries. It was not necessary for the work to have been done in a developing country, but the findings and results must be appropriate or applicable to a developing country setting. It is acknowledged that environmental research, technology applications and policy implementation have been demonstrated to improve environmental sustainability and protection in several developed economies. The main argument of the book is that similar gains can be achieved in developing economies and economies in transition. The book is organized into six chapters along some of the key themes discussed at the conference: Environmental Health Management, Sustainable Energy and Fuel, Water Treatment, Purification and Protection, Mining and Environment, Soil Stabilization, and Environmental Monitoring. It is hoped that the contents of the book will provide an insight into some of the environmental and health mana- ment challenges confronting the developing world and the steps being taken to address them.

Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods

Author : Christian Huck
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593397625
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods written by Christian Huck and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at cultural appropriation from around the world, this volume uses the field of cultural studies--heavily influenced by both economics and sociology--as a lens through which to view the paradigm of transcultural consumption. The editors present a variety of consumptive phenomena including: the introduction of Chinese foods to the United States, Ford cars in Germany, and American schoolbooks in the Philippines. Rejecting the idea that these interactions were simply forms of "Americanization," Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods fills a gap in consumer studies and enriches the debate about cultural transfer.

The AT Reader

Author : Marilyn Carr
Publisher : Bootstrap Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The AT Reader written by Marilyn Carr and published by Bootstrap Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Appropriate Technology

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Appropriate Technology written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: