Appropriating Technology

CONTENTS

 

 

Volume Introduction.     Ron Eglash

 

Section 1: Body Tech

 

Section Introduction

Jennifer Crossiant

 

The Uses of Scientific Fact:  Pasteur's Public Experiment on

Anthrax in the Popular Press of the Time.     Massimaino Bucchi

 

The Bodybuilder's Pharmacy.     Jennifer L. Croissant

 

“All in my bag of tricks:” Turning a Trick with the Appropriate(d) Technology.    

Lisa Jean Moore

 

Anal Sex and the Female Condom:  Are Gay Men Getting a Bum

Wrap?     Michael Scarce

 

Border Skirmishes: Gender, New Technologies, and the Persistence of Structure.

Hank Bromely

 

Section 2: Information Technologies

 

Section Introduction.     Ron Eglash

 

The Scratch is Hip-hop.       David Goldberg

 

Cultural Paths to Computing: African American Women in a Community Technology Center.     Samuel M. Hampton

 

CyberFeminism Meets NAFTAzteca: Recoding the Technotext.     Virginia Eubanks

 

Propagating Alternative Journalism Through Social Movement Cyberspace:

The Appropriation of Computer Networks For Alternative Media Development. Brian Martin Murphy

 

The American Indian Computer Art Project: an interview with Turtle Heart.

Ron Eglash


Section 3: Environments

 

Section Introduction

Giovanna Di Chiro

 

Science by the People: Grassroots environmental Monitoring and the Debate Over Scientific Expertise.     Michael Heiman

 

Local actions, global visions: remaking environmental expertise.    

Giovanna Di Chiro

 

The Use of Computerized GIS Mapping Systems in the Struggle for Environmental Justice: Promise and Pitfalls.     Carmen Concepción

 

“Adjusting our Science to Human Beings”: Encounters Between Community-Based Knowledge and Environmental Science—An Interview with Linda Price King.     Giovanna Di Chiro

 

Appropriate/d Technology, Cultural Revival, and Environmental Activism: A Native American Case Study.     Valerie Kuletz

 

“Whose Trees/interpretations Are These?"  Bridging the Divide Between Subjects and Outsider-Researchers.

Peter Taylor

 

Section 4: Invention

 

Section Introduction.     Rayvon Fouché

 

Not Made for Black History Month: Lewis Latimer and Technological Assimilation. Rayvon Fouché

 

Unexpected Pleasures: Phonographs and Cultural Identities in America, 1895-1915. Lisa Gitelman

 

I Was a Teenage Sex Cyborg’: Young Gay Men and the Technological ‘Self.’     Richard Benjamin 

 

Up the Vélorution: Appropriating the Bicycle and the Politics of Technology.

Paul Rosen