303.483 HOW How Users Matter : the Co-Construction of Users and Technology / ed.: N. Oudshoorn, T. Pinch. - Cambridge, Mass. ; London, UK : MIT Press, 2003. - 340 p. - (Inside Technology). - ISBN 978-0-262-65109-7. - Текст : непосредственный. Notes : p. 271 - 294. References : p. 295 - 334. Contributors : p. 335 - 338. Index : p. 339 - 340
Oudshoorn, Nelly. How Users and Non-Users Matter : Introduction / N. Oudshoorn, T. Pinch Users and Non-Users as Active Agents in the (De-) Stabilization of Technologies : Part I Lindsay, Christina. From the Shadows : Users as Designers, Producers, Marketers, Distributors, and Technical Support / C. Lindsay Kline, Ronald. Resisting Consumer Technology in Rural America : the Telephone and Electrification / R. Kline Wyatt, Sally. Non-Users Also Matter : the Construction of Users and Non-Users of the Internet / S. Wyatt Laegran, Anne Sofie. Escape Vehicles? The Internet and the Automobile in a Local-Global Intersection / A. S. Laegran Multiple Spokespersons : States and Social Movements as Representatives of Users : Part II Rose, Dale. Citizens as Users of Technology : an Exploratory Study of Vaccines and Vaccination / D. Rose, S. Blume Parthasarathy, Shobita. Knowledge Is Power : Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer and Patient Activism in the United States and Britain / S. Parthasarathy Kammen, Jessika van. Who Represents the Users? Critical Encounters between Women's Health Advocates and Scientists in Contraceptive R&D / J. Kammen Epstein, Steven. Inclusion, Diversity, and Biomedical Knowledge Making : the Multiple Politics of Representation / S. Epstein Multiplicity in Locations : Configuring the User during the Design, the Testing, and the Selling of Technologies : Part III Oost, Ellen van. Materialized Gender : How Shavers Configure the Users' Femininity and Masculinity / E. Oost Oudshoorn, Nelly. Clinical Trials as a Cultural Niche in Which to Configure the Gender Identities of Users : the Case of Male Contraceptive Development / N. Oudshoorn Schot, Johan. The Mediated Design of Products, Consumption, and Consumers in the Twentieth Century / J. Schot, A. A. de la Bruheze Pinch, Trevor. Giving Birth to New Users : How the Minimoog was Sold to Rock and Roll / T. Pinch
Users have become an integral part of technology studies. The essays in this volume look at the creative capacity of users to shape technology in all phases, from design to implementation. Using a variety of theoretical approaches, including a feminist focus on users and use (in place of the traditional emphasis on men and machines), concepts from semiotics, and the cultural studies view of consumption as a cultural activity, these essays examine what users do with technology and, in turn, what technology does to users. The contributors consider how users consume, modify, domesticate, design, reconfigure, and resist technological development - and how users are defined and transformed by technology. The book first shows how resistance to and non-use of a technology can be a crucial factor in the eventual modification and improvement of that technology, then looks at advocacy groups and the many kinds of users they represent, particularly in the context of health care and clinical testing. Finally, It examines the role of users in different phases of the design, testing, and selling of technology. Included here Is an enlightening account of one company’s design process for men’s and women’s shavers, which resulted in a "Ladyshave"’ for users assumed to be technophobes. Taken together, the essays in How Users Matter show that any understanding of users must take into consideration the multiplicity of roles they play - and that the conventional distinction between users and producers is largely artificial. Nelly Oudshoorn is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University
