Studying those who study us : an anthropologist in the world of artificial intelligence / Diana E. Forsythe ; edited, with an introduction, by David J. Hess.
"Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science and technology. This volume brings together her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997.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 co...
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Writing science.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science and technology. This volume brings together her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997.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 when building software? How should humans interact with computers, and how do they actually interact? 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? Among several pioneering strands of thought, the essays investigate roles of gender and power in computer engineering, and the idea of the laboratory as a fictive kin group that reproduces gender asymmetries."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 242 variously numbered pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0804741417 9780804741415 0804742030 9780804742030 |