Description: Further DetailsTitle: Studying Those Who Study UsCondition: NewSubtitle: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial IntelligenceISBN-10: 0804742030EAN: 9780804742030ISBN: 9780804742030Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/01/2002Description: 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 This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997.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? The book is not only a significant anthropological study of artificial intelligence and informatics, but is also an exemplar of how reflexive ethnography should be done. Among several pioneering strands of thought, it investigates the roles of gender and power in computer engineering, looking at the cultural mechanisms that support the persistent male domination of engineering, and analyzing the laboratory as a fictive kin group that reproduces gender asymmetries. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 386gAuthor: Diana E. ForsytheContributor: David J. Hess (Edited by)Genre: Society & CultureBook Series: Writing ScienceTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Studying Those Who Study Us
Title: Studying Those Who Study Us
Subtitle: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence
ISBN-10: 0804742030
EAN: 9780804742030
ISBN: 9780804742030
Release Date: 07/01/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: David J. Hess (Edited by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Studying Those Who Study Us : an Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Social Aspects, Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Information Technology
Publication Year: 2002
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Author: Diana E. Forsythe
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Series: Writing Science Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
