Critical Technology - A Social Theory of Personal Computing

List of contents

Contents: What does critical theory criticize about technology?; Hacking the first personal computers: the aesthetics of personal computing; The cynicism of the computer gamer; Hacking as 'thwarted vocation'; Gaming publics and technical politics; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Graeme Kirkpatrick

Summary

Have we resigned ourselves to a cyber-future that has been decided behind our backs? Why is technology central to the concerns of critical social theory? In developing the PC technologists have borrowed ideas from the human sciences about what people are like, about the nature of meaning and the desirability of some experiences over others

Product details

• Authors: Graeme Kirkpatrick, Graeme (University of Manchester Kirkpatrick, Kirkpatrick Graeme
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781138600164
• ISBN: 978-1-138-60016-4
• No. of pages: 151
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Personal computers