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Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power
Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power, From the vernacular engineering of Latino car design to environmental analysis among rural women to the production of indigenous herbal cures-groups outside the centers of scientific power persistently defy the notion that they are merely passive recipien, Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power has a rating of 4 stars
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  • Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power
  • Written by author Ron Eglash
  • Published by University of Minnesota Press, July 2004
  • From the vernacular engineering of Latino car design to environmental analysis among rural women to the production of indigenous herbal cures-groups outside the centers of scientific power persistently defy the notion that they are merely passive recipien
  • The subject investigated here in 20 contributions intertwines at least a half dozen disciplines and may grow up to be a discipline of its own some day. The contributors are (mostly) academics involved with sociolgy, the media, science & technology, public
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Appropriating technology : an introduction
IBody tech
1The uses of scientific fact : Pasteur's public experiment on anthrax in the popular press of the time5
2The bodybuilder's pharmacy33
3"All in my bag of tricks" : turning a trick with the appropriate(d) technology51
4Anal sex and the female condom : are gay men getting a bum wrap?63
5Border skirmishes : gender, new technologies, and the persistence of structure79
IIInformation technologies
6The scratch is hip-hop : appropriating the phonographic medium107
7Cultural paths to computing : African American women in a community technology center145
8Cyberfeminism meets NAFTAzteca : recoding the technotext151
9Propagating alternative journalism through social justice cyberspace : the appropriation of computer networks for alternative media development in the 1990s163
10The American Indian computer art project : an interview with Turtle Heart181
IIIEnvironments
11Science by the people : grassroots environmental monitoring and the debate over scientific expertise207
12Local actions, global visions : remaking environmental expertise225
13The use of computerized GIS mapping systems in the struggle for environmental justice253
14Encounters between community-based knowledge and environmental science : an interview with Linda Price King265
15Appropriate/d technology, cultural revival, and environmental activism : a native American case study287
16"Whose trees/interpretations are these?" : bridging the divide between subjects and outsider-researchers305
IVInvention
17Not made for black history month : Lewis Latimer and technological assimilation315
18Unexpected pleasures : phonographs and cultural identities in America, 1895-1915331
19Close encounters of another kind : young gay men and the technological self345
20Up the Velorution : appropriating the bicycle and the politics of technology365


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