E-Books →Subversion, Conversion, Development Cross–Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design

This book explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies. These encounters are alternative because they counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption; they include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, DIY cultures, and other nonmainstream models of technology production. The contributorsleading thinkers in science and technology studies, anthropology, and software designpay special attention to the specific inflections that different cultures and communities give to the value of knowledge. The richly detailed accounts presented here challenge the dominant view of knowledge as a neutral goodinformation available for representation and encoding but separated from all social relations.
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