Virtual Knowledge Experimenting in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (2012) MIT Press

Virtual Knowledge

Experimenting in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (2012) MIT Press

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Introduction – Virtual Knowledge
– Sally Wyatt, Andrea Scharnhorst, Anne Beaulieu and Paul Wouters

Chapter 2 
Authority and Expertise in New Sites of Knowledge Production– Anne Beaulieu, Sarah de Rijcke and Bas van Heur

Chapter 3
Working in Virtual Knowledge: Affective Labor in Scholarly Collaboration
– Smiljana Antonijevic, Stefan Dormans and Sally Wyatt

Chapter 4
Exploring Uncertainty in Knowledge Representations: Classifications, Simulations and Models of the World
– Matthijs Kouw, Charles van den Heuvel and Andrea Scharnhorst

Chapter 5 
Virtually Visual: The Visual Rhetoric of GIS in Policy Making
– Rebecca Moody, Matthijs Kouw and Victor Bekkers

Chapter 6 
Sloppy Data Floods or Precise Social Science Methodologies? Dilemmas in the Transition to Data-Intensive Research in Sociology and Economics– Clement Levallois, Stephanie Steinmetz and Paul Wouters

Chapter 7 
Openness in Scholarly Communication: Conceptual Framework and Challenges to Innovation
– Clifford Tatum and Nicholas W. Jankowski

Chapter 8 
Visionary Technologies: Shaping Research Agendas in Family History
– Jan Kok and Paul Wouters

Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing.

Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion

: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing. 

By Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer, Information Today, 2008,

Table of Contents 

1. Part I: Introduction
2. Part II: Productivity
3. Part III: Democratization
4. Part IV: Death of Distance
5. Part V: Freedom and Information Rights
6. Part VI: Ubiquitous Computing
7. Part VII Conclusion
8. References
9. Author Details

pt. I. Introduction --

1. Computerization movements and the diffusion of technological innovations / Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer --
2. Reprints of seminal research papers on computerization movements --
Paper 1. Computerization movements and the mobilization of support for computerization / Rob Kling and Suzanne Iacono --
Paper 2. Computerization movements : the rise of the Internet and distant forms of work / Suzanne Iacono and Rob Kling --

pt. II. Productivity --

3. The computerization movement in the U.S. home mortgage industry : automated underwriting from 1980 to 2004 / M. Lynne Markus ... [et al.] --
4. Visions of the next big thing : computerization movements and the mobilization of support for new technologies / Jonathan P. Allen --
5. Framing the photographs : understanding digital photography as a computerization movement / Eric T. Meyer --

pt. III. Democratization --

6. From the computerization movement to computerization : communication networks in a high-tech organization / Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman --
7. Internetworking in the small / John M. Carroll --
8. Online communities : infrastructure, relational cohesion, and sustainability / Mary J. Culnan --

pt. IV. Death of distance --

9. Virtual teams : high-tech rhetoric and low-tech experience / Sara Kiesler ... [et al.] --
10. Large-scale distributed collaboration : tension in a new interaction order / Gloria Mark --
11. Examining the proliferation of intranets / Roberta Lamb and Mark Poster --

pt. V. Freedom and information rights --

12. Information/communication rights as a new environmentalism? : core environmental concepts for linking rights-oriented computerization movements / Andrew Clement and Christie Hurrell --
13. Examining the success of computerization movements in the ubiquitous computing era : free and open source software movements / Margaret S. Elliott --
14. Emerging patterns of intersection and segmentation when computerization movements interact / Walt Scacchi --
15. Seeking reliability in freedom : the case of F/OSS / Hamid R. Ekbia and Les Gasser --
16. Movement ideology vs. user pragmatism in the organizational adoption of open source software / Jason Dedrick and Joel West --

pt. VI. Ubiquitous computing --

17. The professional's everyday struggle with ubiquitous computing / Carsten Sørensen and David Gibson --
18. Politics of design : next-generation computational environments / Mark S. Ackerman --
19. Social movements shaping the Internet : the outcome of an ecology of games / William Dutton --

pt. VII. Conclusion --

20. Comparative perspective on computerization movements : implications for ubiquitous computing / Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer.

Critical Environments Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside”

Critical Environments

Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside”

1998

 • 

Author: 

Cary Wolfe

 Content

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Nothing Fails like Success: The Postmodern Moment and the Problem of the “Outside”

1 Pragmatism: Rorty, Cavell, and Others
The Island of Belief: Walter Benn Michaels and the Uses of William James
Making Contingency Safe for Liberalism: Richard Rorty’s Evasion of Philosophy
Coming to Terms: Stanley Cavell and the Ethics of Skepticism
2 Systems Theory: Maturana and Varela with Luhmann
Feminist Philosophy of Science and the Detour of “Objectivity”
When Loops Turn Strange: From First- to Second-Order Cybernetics
Between the Scylla of Realism and the Charybdis of Idealism: Autopoiesis and Beyond
Necessary Blind Spots: Niklas Luhmann and the Observation of Observation
Politics, Ethics, and Systems Theory
3 Poststructuralism: Foucault with Deleuze
Rorty and Foucault
A Pragmatics of the Multiple: Foucault with Deleuze
Folded but Not Twisted: Deleuze and Systems Theory

Conclusion: Post-Marxism, Critical Politics, and the Environment of Theory

Notes

Index 

The Nonhuman Turn 2015 • Richard Grusin, Editor

The Nonhuman Turn

2015

 • 

Richard Grusin, Editor

Contents

Introduction
Richard Grusin
1. The Supernormal Animal
Brian Massumi
2. Consequences of Panpsychism
Steven Shaviro
3. Artfulness
Erin Manning
4.The Aesthetics of Philosophical Carpentry
Ian Bogost
5. Our Predictive Condition; or, Prediction in the Wild
Mark B. N. Hansen
6. Crisis, Crisis, Crisis; or, the Temporality of Networks
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
7. They Are Here
Timothy Morton
8. Form / Matter / Chora: Object-Oriented Ontology and Feminist New Materialism
Rebekah Sheldon
9. Systems and Things: On Vital Materialism and Object-Oriented Philosophy
Jane Bennett
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index 

Critical Digital Studies

CRITICAL DIGITAL STUDIES: A READER, SECOND EDITION

Edited by Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker

Digital Futures

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division © 2013

Acknowledgments

Introduction
ARTHUR AND MARILOUISE KROKER

CODE BREAKERS

1. Traumas of Code
   N. KATHERINE HAYLES
2. A Game of Cat?s Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies
   DONNA J. HARAWAY
3. Reframing the Cathedral: Opening the Sources of Technologies and Cultural Assumptions
   SARA DIAMOND
4. Romancing the Anti-body: Lust and Longing in (Cyber)space
   LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON

NEW DIGITAL MEDIA

5. All Bugs Are Shallow: Digital Biopower, Hacker Resistance, and Technological Error in Open-Source Software
   MATTHEW KELLY
6. Contagion Theory: Beyond the Microbe
   TONY D. SAMPSON
7. A Conversation with Spirits inside the Simulation of a Coast Salish Longhouse
   JACKSON 2BEARS
8. Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism
   NICK DYER-WITHEFORD AND GREIG DE PEUTER
9. Archaeologies of Media Art
   JUSSI PARIKKA IN CONVERSATION WITH GARNET HERTZ

TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND SURVEILLANCE

10. Precision + Guided + Seeing
    JORDAN CRANDALL
11. Understanding Meta-media
    LEV MANOVICH
12. Black Box, Black Bloc
    ALEXANDER R. GALLOWAY
13. Biophilosophy for the 21st Century
    EUGENE THACKER
14. Algebra of Identity: Skin of Wind, Skin of Streams, Skin of Shadows, Skin of Vapour
    D. FOX HARRELL

POLITICS, GENDER, AND RELIGION

INFORMATION AND POWER

15. Communication and Imperialism
    JAMES TULLY
16. Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of (Dis)order versus the People?s Archive
    GREGORY SHOLETTE
17. Tell Us What?s Going to Happen: Information Feeds to the War on Terror
    SAMUEL NUNN
18. Grammar of Terrorism: Captivity, Media, and a Critique of Biopolitics
    MICHAEL DARTNELL
19. Virilio?s Apocalypticism
    MARK FEATHERSTONE

GENDER AND SEXUALITY

20. The Cyborg Mother: A Breached Boundary
    JAIMIE SMITH-WINDSOR
21. Haptics, Mobile Handhelds, and Other ?Novel? Devices: The Tactile Unconscious of Reading across Old and New Media
    RACHEL C. LEE
22. Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study
    MICHA CÁRDENAS

RELIGION AND SOCIETY

23. Circuits, Death, and Sacred fiction: The City of Banaras
    MAHESH DAAS
24. Digital Cosmologies: Religion, Technology, and Ideology
    ARTHUR KROKER
25. Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh
    STEPHEN PFOHL

CULTURE, ART, AND COMMUNICATION

PERCEPTION

26. The Aura of the Digital
    MICHAEL BETANCOURT
27. When Taste Politics Meets Terror: The Critical Art Ensemble on Trial
    JOAN HAWKINS
28. Distraction and Digital Culture
    WILLIAM BOGARD

PERFORMANCE

29. Metal Performance: humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About
    STEVE DIXON
30. Prosthetic Head: Intelligence, Awareness, and Agency
    STELARC
31. Simulated Talking Machines: Stelarc?s Prosthetic Head
    JULIE CLARKE
32. Slipstreaming the Cyborg
    FRANCESCA DE NICOLÒ IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTINA MCPHEE

SOUND

33. Black Secret Technology (The Whitey on the Moon Dub)
    JULIAN JONKER
34. Material Memories: Time and the Cinematic Image
    PAUL D. MILLER (DJ SPOOKY)
35. The Turntable
    CHARLES MUDEDE

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