Designing information technology in the postmodern age : from method to metaphor /
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 syst...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c1995.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: Being, Technology, and Design
- 1. Computers and Praxis: How the Theoretical Is Giving Way to the Pragmatic in Computer Systems Design
- 2. Who Is in Control?: Critical Theory and Information Technology Design
- 3. Deconstruction and Information Technology: The Implications of Derrida's Project against Metaphysics
- 4. Where in the World Is Cyberspace?: The Phenomenology of Computer-Mediated Communications
- 5. Representation and Reality: The Phenomenology of Virtual Reality
- 6. Systematic Design: Methods, Theories, and Models in Design
- 7. Metaphors and Machines: Metaphor, Being, and Computer Systems Design
- 8. Conclusion.