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100 1 $aBalsamo, Anne Marie,$d1959-
245 10 $aDesigning culture :$bthe technological imagination at work /$cAnne Balsamo.
246 13 $aWomen of the world talk back
260 $aDurham [N.C.] :$bDuke University Press,$c2011.
300 $axv, 288 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm. +$e1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
500 $aTitle of accompanying DVD : Women of the world talk back.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
538 $aSystem requirements: Windows XP, Vista, 7; Mac OS X, Quicktime player.
505 0 $aIntroduction : taking culture seriously in the age of innovation -- Gendering the technological imagination -- The performance of innovation -- Public interactives and the design of technological literacies -- Designing learning : the university as a site of technocultural innovation -- Conclusion : the work of a book in a digital age.
520 $a"The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the technological imagination, a quality of mind that enables people to think with technology, to transform what is known into what is possible. She describes the technological imagination at work in several multimedia collaborations in which she was involved as a designer or developer. One of these entailed the creation of an interactive documentary for the NGO Forum held in conjunction with the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. (That documentary is included as a DVD in Designing Culture.) Balsamo also recounts the development of the interactive museum exhibit XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading, created by the group RED (Research in Experimental Documents) at Xerox PARC. She speculates on what it would mean to cultivate imaginations as ingenious in creating new democratic cultural possibilities as they are in creating new kinds of technologies and digital media. Designing Culture is a manifesto for transforming educational programs and developing learning strategies adequate to the task of inspiring culturally attuned technological imaginations."--Pub. desc.
650 0 $aTechnological innovations$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aTechnological literacy.
650 0 $aCivilization, Modern.
650 0 $aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
650 2 $aDiffusion of Innovation.
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