A Person-Centered Guide to Demystifying Technology, 2nd Edition: Working together to observe, question, design, prototype, and implement/reject technology in support of people's valued beings and doings

Wolske, Martin

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A Person-Centered Guide to Demystifying Technology, 2nd Edition: Working together to observe, question, design, prototype, and implement/reject technology in support of people's valued beings and doings

Author(s)

Wolske, Martin

Contributor(s)

• Bayer, Betty
• Shallcross, Stephanie
• Rathi, Dinesh
• Grob, Henry
• Singh, Vandana
• Rasmussen, Sara
• Han, Yingying

Issue Date

2023-08-09

Keyword(s)

• software
• hardware
• community informatics
• Internet
• computer networks
• digital equity
• social justice
• design justice
• social shaping of technology

Date of Ingest

2025-01-31T11:29:56-06:00

Abstract

Digital technologies old and new are not objects that can be packed inside a box. They are a seamless, indivisible combination of people, organizations, policies, economies, histories, cultures, knowledge, and material things that are continuously shaped and reshaped. Every one of us innovates-in-use our everyday technologies; we just do not always know it. We are shaped by the networked information tools in our midst, and we shape them and thereby shape others. While many of the chapters in this book can be approached as standalone explorations, as many around the world have done, its full potential comes when collaboratively taken as a journey through twelve sessions. Each session in this second, revised edition includes two thematically linked chapters, one more socially oriented and one more technically oriented. Sessions are brought together into three larger generative themes that are built from three decades of participatory design in and with community, and from the teaching of these concepts and practices in courses and workshops. Approached within a community of practice, learning outcomes include discovering ways to advance power, both power within and power with others; advancing our technical skills, but also and even more, our progressive community engagement skills, our critical sociotechnical skills, and our cognitive, information, and social-emotional skills; and progressing our culturally competent collective leadership through social justice storytelling within a framing of reciprocity. In so doing, this textbook seeks to address the call placed by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – to rapidly shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society.

Publisher

Illinois Open Publishing Network

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

book

Language

eng

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright (c) 2023 Martin Wolske. Copyright “Ideating and Iterating Code: Scratch Example” Betty Bayer and Stephanie Shallcross. Copyright “Introducing the Unix Command Line” Martin Wolske, Dinesh Rathi, Henry Grob, and Vandana Singh. Copyright “Security and Privacy” Sara Rasmussen. Copyright "Storytelling in the Information Sciences" Yingying Han and Martin Wolske.
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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