Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 1, Metrics

Translating Technology in Africa Volume 1, Metrics Volume 1, Metrics /

Brings together authors from different disciplines who engage with Science and Technology Studies (STS) to stimulate curiosity about the diversity of sociotechnical assemblages on the African continent. The contributions provide detailed praxeographic examinations of technologies at work in postcolo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rottenburg, Richard, author (author), Ballim, Faeeza, author, Kotzen, Bronwyn, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL 2023.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Information technology > Africa.
Postcolonialism > Africa.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009781222006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Richard Rottenburg
  • Weighing the Forest: Field Measurements, Remote Sensing, and Carbon Payments in Central Africa / Véra Ehrenstein
  • Privacy, Privation, and Person: Data, Debt, and Infrastructured Personhood / Emma Park and Kevin P. Donovan
  • 'Graduates-as-a-Service': Running a Data Factory in Northern Uganda / René Umlauf
  • On the Technopolitics and Metrics of the Right to Information / Jonathan Klaaren
  • Human and Machine Concept Possession / Helen Robertson
  • The Dual Metrics of Contemporary Yorùbá Life / Helen Verran.

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