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Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives: Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
Lucy A. Suchman
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Paperback. This 2007 book is about how human actions and technological artifacts are intertwined. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 15 tables. BIC Classification: UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478. Plans and Situated Actions. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. 328 pages, 15 tables. This 2007 book is about how human actions and technological artifacts are intertwined. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: UYQ. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight: 450.
This 2007 book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and practices of those sciences work to obscure the performative nature of both persons and things. The question then shifts from debates over the status of human-like machines, to that of how humans and machines are enacted as similar or different in practice, and with what theoretical, practical and political consequences. Drawing on scholarship across the social sciences, ... Read more
This 2007 book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and practices of those sciences work to obscure the performative nature of both persons and things. The question then shifts from debates over the status of human-like machines, to that of how humans and machines are enacted as similar or different in practice, and with what theoretical, practical and political consequences. Drawing on scholarship across the social sciences, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521675888
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V9780521675888
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About Lucy A. Suchman
Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. She is also the Co-Director of Lancaster's Centre for Science Studies. Before her post at Lancaster University, she spent 20 years as a researcher at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Her research focused on the social and material practices that make up ... Read more
Reviews for Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives: Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions
'... a wide ranging and ambitious book,and makes an important contribution to studies of technology, action and agency. ... the text remains readable and informative and makes a valuable and important intervention in the field.' British Journal of Sociology As Margules challenges traditional evolutionary biology, and as symbiogenesis challenges the Darwinian notion of descent with modification, so Suchman ... Read more