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  1. Questioning Technology.Andrew Feenberg - 1999 - Routledge.
    In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that techonological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology's crucial importance. In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. Every major technical changes reverberates at countless levels: economic, political, and cultural. If we continue to see the social and technical domains as being seperate, (...)
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  • How to do things with words.John L. Austin - 1962 - Oxford [Eng.]: Clarendon Press. Edited by Marina Sbisá & J. O. Urmson.
    For this second edition, the editors have returned to Austin's original lecture notes, amending the printed text where it seemed necessary.
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  • Configuring the User as Everybody: Gender and Design Cultures in Information and Communication Technologies.Marcelle Stienstra, Els Rommes & Nelly Oudshoorn - 2004 - Science, Technology and Human Values 29 (1):30-63.
    Based on two case studies of the design of electronic communication networks developed in the public and private sector, this article explores the barriers within current design cultures to account for the needs and diversity of users. Whereas the constraints on user-centered design are usually described in macrosociological terms, in which the user–technology relation is merely understood as a process of the inclusion or exclusion of users in design, the authors suggest that it is important to adopt a semiotic approach. (...)
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  • The Ambiguity of Play.Brian Sutton-Smith - 1998 - British Journal of Educational Studies 46 (4):482-485.
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  • Connected Play: Tweens in a Virtual World.Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields & Mizuko Ito - 2013 - MIT Press.
    How kids play in virtual worlds, how it matters for their offline lives, and what this means for designing educational opportunities.
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  • Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism.Ian Bogost - 2006 - MIT Press.
    A critical approach that marries literary theory and information technology, reading digital and cultural artifacts—whether videogames, literature, or ...
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  • Between Need and Desire: Exploring Strategies for Gendering Design.Christina Mörtberg & Maja van der Velden - 2012 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 37 (6):663-683.
    Script analysis is often used in research that focuses on gender and technology design. It is applied as a method to describe problematic inscriptions of gender in technology and as a tool for advancing more acceptable inscriptions of gender in technology. These analyses are based on the assumption that we can design technologies that do justice to gender. One critique on script analysis is that it does not engage with the emergent effects of design. The authors explore this critique with (...)
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  • Expectation and Mobilisation: Enacting Future Users.Mike Michael & Alex Wilkie - 2009 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 34 (4):502-522.
    This article considers how the figure of the ``user'' is deployed to imagine the assembling of location-based mobile phone technologies in the context of UK policy. Drawing on the sociology of expectations, we address the performativity of the ``user'' in the think tank Demos' publication Mobilisation. In the process, we analyze how discourses about users enact particular futures that feature arrangements of, for example, persons, mobile phone technologies, and political institutions. We present two narrative strategies operating in Mobilisation: first, the (...)
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