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Item Details
Title:
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STUDYING THOSE WHO STUDY US
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN THE WORLD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE |
By: |
Diana E. Forsythe, David J. Hess (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£45.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0804741417 |
ISBN 13: |
9780804741415 |
Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
16 July, 2001 |
Series: |
Writing Science |
Pages: |
272 |
Description: |
Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays which address key questions that confront contemporary technology studies. |
Synopsis: |
Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997. The essays proceed as a series of developing variations on the key questions that still confront science and technology studies today. What assumptions do expert systems designers make about users, and about knowledge more broadly, when they build software? How should humans interact with computers, and how do they, really? Why do computing firms hire anthropologists to study human-computer interaction, and what do anthropologists find once they are hired? And how and why are traditional power asymmetries between men and women produced and maintained in engineering firms and laboratories? |
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US |
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Stanford University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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