Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age

Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age

Author: Richard Coyne

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 9780262270885

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Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age puts the theoretical discussion of computer systems and information technology on a new footing. Shifting the discourse from its usual rationalistic framework, Richard Coyne shows how the conception, development, and application of computer systems is challenged and enhanced by postmodern philosophical thought. He places particular emphasis on the theory of metaphor, showing how it has more to offer than notions of method and models appropriated from science. Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophical thinking including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology, critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction - comparing them and showing how they differ in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications, computer representation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and multimedia. He also probes the claims made of information technology, including its presumptions of control, its so-called radicality, even its ability to make virtual worlds, and shows that many of these claims are poorly founded.


Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age

Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age

Author: Richard Coyne

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 9780262518949

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Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophicalthinking—including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology,critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction—comparing them and showing how theydiffer in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications,computer representation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and multimedia.


Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach

Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach

Author: Kristina Höök

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1447100352

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Social navigation is an emerging field which examines how we navigate information or locate services in both real and virtual environments and how we interact with and use others to find our way in information spaces. It has led to new ways of thinking about how we design information spaces and how we address usability issues, particularly in collaborative, web-based systems. This book follows on from Munro et al, Social Navigation of Information Space, which was the first major work in this field. It provides a similar broad overview of the field, but is much more practical in focus.


The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information

Author: Luciano Floridi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0470756764

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This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing. A complete guide to the philosophy of computing and information. Comprises 26 newly-written chapters by leading international experts. Provides a complete, critical introduction to the field. Each chapter combines careful scholarship with an engaging writing style. Includes an exhaustive glossary of technical terms. Ideal as a course text, but also of interest to researchers and general readers.


Cross-Cultural Technology Design

Cross-Cultural Technology Design

Author: Huatong Sun

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0199744769

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This book explores how to create culture-sensitive technology for local users in an increasingly globalized world with rising participatory culture. Illustrated with a cross-cultural study of mobile messaging use, Sun presents an innovative framework integrating action and meaning through a dialogical, cyclical design process to create usable and meaningful technology.


The In-Discipline of Design

The In-Discipline of Design

Author: Annie Gentes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 3319659847

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Design is a conceptive activity which is usually presented as a sensible, sequential process and action. This book claims that design cannot be reduced to the rational, effective planning and organization that most models (such as design thinking) present. The author suggests another type of rationality which is based on what the humanities call aesthetics, writing, composition, and style: a rationality based in imaginary elaboration and coherence. The chapters, therefore, demonstrate that design practice is about creating not only functional tools, but planes of reflections that challenge norms. To support this claim, this book analyzes research programs, art works, and design projects that produced new information and communication technologies (ICT). This is detailed using examples in each chapter. From these examples, two types of conclusions are derived: a first level considers the lessons that we can draw from these examples in terms of design practice while the second level starts a theoretical discussion based on these analyses of use cases. The goal is to develop an understanding of conception in its different forms. This book brings the use of these neglected methods to the foreground as a way to explicate the design process. Taking into consideration the humanities within design contributes to the discussion on pluridisciplinarity. The book posits that design as a historical and situated activity is a truly multidisciplinary endeavor that bridges the gap between engineering sciences and the humanities.


Issues & Trends of Information Technology Management in Contemporary Organizations

Issues & Trends of Information Technology Management in Contemporary Organizations

Author: Information Resources Management Association. International Conference

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 878

ISBN-13: 9781930708396

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As the field of information technology continues to grow and expand, it impacts more and more organizations worldwide. The leaders within these organizations are challenged on a continuous basis to develop and implement programs that successfully apply information technology applications. This is a collection of unique perspectives on the issues surrounding IT in organizations and the ways in which these issues are addressed. This valuable book is a compilation of the latest research in the area of IT utilization and management.


Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology

Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology

Author: David H. Jonassen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 1195

ISBN-13: 0805841458

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This edition of this handbook updates and expands its review of the research, theory, issues and methodology that constitute the field of educational communications and technology. Organized into seven sectors, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly changing field.