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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1. Verfasser: Coyne, Richard
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 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.