1st Edition

Computing Myths, Class Realities An Ethnography Of Technology And Working People In Sheffield, England

By David Hakken Copyright 1993
    266 Pages
    by Routledge

    265 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book presents a study of computing in an economically transforming city in the north of England to look at how new information technologies effect and are affected by a historically vibrant working-class culture. It is about the extensive change, taking place in contemporary societies.

    Introduction -- Studying Computerization -- Why Study Computerization? -- Studying Computing Ethnographically in South Yorkshire -- The Methods Used to Study Computing in Sheffield -- Describing Computerization -- Computerization of Work -- Computing and Jobs -- Computerization and the Reproduction of Symbols -- Analyzing Computing Structurally -- Theorizing Computerization -- The National State and Computerization -- Sheffield Computerization and the World Political Economy -- Computerization and the Region -- Making Computerization -- Culture-Centered Computing and Local Policy -- Computing and Gender -- Class, Culture, Computing, and Politics