Waves and forms : (Record no. 73418)
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| fixed length control field | 03892nam a2200613 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 7109322 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204839.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 151223s2015 maua ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262328159 |
| -- | electronic |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | hardcover |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | hardcover |
| 082 0# - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 786.70951 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Zimmermann, Basile, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Waves and forms : |
| Sub Title | electronic music devices and computer encodings in China / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (xii, 277 pages) : |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Inside technology |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Technical objects constrain what users do with them. They are not neutral entities but embody information, choices, values, assumptions, or even mistakes embedded by designers. What happens when a technology is designed in one culture and used in another? What happens, for example, when a Chinese user is confronted by Roman-alphabet-embedded interfaces? In this book, Basile Zimmermann examines the relationship between technical objects and culture in contemporary China, drawing on concepts from science and technology studies (STS). He presents a new theoretical framework for "culture" based on the notions of waves and forms, which provides a powerful descriptive toolkit for technology and culture. The materials Zimmermann uses to develop and illustrate his theoretical arguments come from three groups of case studies about the use of technical devices in today's China. The first and most extensive group consists of observations of electronic music devices in Beijing; the second is a study of a Chinese networking site, "Happy Network"; and the third is a collection of personal, small-scale observations on the way Chinese characters behave when located in alphabet-encoded devices such as mobile phones, web pages, or printed documents. Zimmermann discusses well-known frameworks from STS and combines them with propositions and topics from Chinese studies. Each of the case studies advances his theoretical argument. Zimmermann's account shows how cultural differences can be integrated into STS research, and how sinologists can turn their attention from ancient texts and traditional art to everyday things in present-day China. |
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| General subdivision | Social aspects |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Social aspects |
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| General subdivision | History and criticism. |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7109322 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
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| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; |
| -- | MIT Press, |
| -- | [2015], c2015 |
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| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2015] |
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| -- | electronic |
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| -- | online resource |
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| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Science |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Music and technology |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Technology |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Electronic music |
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