On gender in new music interface technology
Organised Sound
Setting the stage - Embodied and spatial dimensions in emerging programming practices
Interacting with Computers
A social scientist sits among ICTD workers
XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students - ICT for Development: Bettering our world through technology
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From the Publisher:Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, he documents the everyday power of technology's dominant image in our society, aforce widely regarded as monolithically progressive. The Machine in Me will lead the reader to understand how deeply connected we are to The Machine and how beneficial it would be for us to really understand ourselves and machines as partially configured of the other--we as part machine, machines as part human. In this way, we can begin to see both the power and limitations of technology.