Material matters: stories of learning technology transfer
| Autor: | Janine Randerson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
business.product_category Multimedia Process (engineering) Communication Abandonment (legal) Media studies computer.software_genre Object (philosophy) law.invention Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) law Information and Communications Technology Transfer (computing) Laptop Microform Sociology business computer Design technology |
| Zdroj: | Critical Arts. 25:227-241 |
| ISSN: | 1992-6049 0256-0046 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02560046.2011.569067 |
| Popis: | The Kinkajou microfilm projector and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project are socio-technological schemes designed to support students in developing countries. This article discusses the disjuncture between the aspirations of the engineers of these projects in the United States and the practical reality of transferring these learning technologies to the global South. I suggest that an understanding of technological objects as ‘quasi’, drawing on philosophers Bruno Latour and Michel Serres, allows an alternative conception of technology transfer as a lively, connective process that includes both human and non-human ‘actants’. The New Zealand project ‘One Beep’, which allows the transfer of digital information via the radio network, may come closer to a ‘quasi-object’ by focusing on connectivity and existing media, rather than the object itself. Unlike the OLPC project or the Kinkajou projector, One Beep does not demand the abandonment of existing cultures of use or the invention of a culture of... |
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