Designing information technology in the postmodern age : from method to metaphor / Richard Coyne.
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نصالناشر:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1995]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 1995وصف:xiii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
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- 0262032287 (hbk)
- T58.5 C69 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-386) and index.
Introduction: Being, Technology, and Design -- 1. Computers and Praxis: How the Theoretical Is Giving Way to the Pragmatic in Computer Systems Design -- 2. Who Is in Control?: Critical Theory and Information Technology Design -- 3. Deconstruction and Information Technology: The Implications of Derrida's Project against Metaphysics -- 4. Where in the World Is Cyberspace?: The Phenomenology of Computer-Mediated Communications -- 5. Representation and Reality: The Phenomenology of Virtual Reality -- 6. Systematic Design: Methods, Theories, and Models in Design -- 7. Metaphors and Machines: Metaphor, Being, and Computer Systems Design -- 8. Conclusion.
Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age puts the theoretical discussion of computer systems and information technology on a new footing. Shifting the discourse from its usual rationalistic framework, Richard Coyne shows how the conception, development, and application of computer systems is challenged and enhanced by postmodern philosophical thought.
He places particular emphasis on the theory of metaphor, showing how it has more to offer than notions of method and models appropriated from science.
Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophical thinking including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology, critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction - comparing them and showing how they differ in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications, computer representation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and multimedia.
He also probes the claims made of information technology, including its presumptions of control, its so-called radicality, even its ability to make virtual worlds, and shows that many of these claims are poorly founded.
