Peoples History of Computing in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Joy Lisi Rankin leads the research program in Gender, Race, and Power in Artificial Intelligence at the AI Now Institute at New York University. She was a Contributing Editor for Lady Science and a consultant for the television show Girls Code and the documentaries The Birth of BASIC and The Queen of Code . She worked at the intersection of technology and education for over a decade. Her website is joyrankin.com. Klappentext Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration¿when users taught computers and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all. Zusammenfassung Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration—when users taught computers and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all.

Product details

• Authors: Joy Lisi Rankin
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780674970977
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97097-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, COMPUTERS / History, History of Education, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Ethical & social aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects