A User`s Guide to the Age of Tech
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Product details:
- Publisher MP ? University Of Minnesota Press
- Date of Publication 30 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781517918767
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 216x140x15 mm
- Weight 249 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 black & white illustrations 700
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How users experience and influence technological change—when so much of that change feels out of our control
Every day, we casually employ one of the most complex tools ever created, using it to read the news, plan our day, and connect with friends. In A User’s Guide to the Age of Tech, Grant Wythoff investigates the process by which now-ubiquitous technologies like our phones become integrated into our lives, showing how the “gadget” stage—before devices are widely adopted—opens the door for users to co-create these technologies and adapt them toward unexpected ends.
In this elegant, approachable work, Wythoff offers a view of how users make new technology their own, subverting dominant power structures and imagining uses never intended by their creators. Rooted in a detailed look into the history of technique (focusing on how we do things with tools rather than the tools themselves), A User’s Guide to the Age of Tech proceeds to complicate, and influence, discussion of subjects like the digital divide and AI.
Drawing on a range of sources, including novels, patents, and newspapers, Wythoff explores the vernacular philosophies that have emerged from users and their diverse, everyday practices, bringing down to earth the conversation about digital titans, away from the abstracted domains of server farms and algorithms. Lodging a passionate argument that we know ourselves better than the data brokers who appear to wield influence over our psyches, Wythoff invites readers (and tech users) to imagine their own digital technique, acknowledge their vast expertise, and see its immense value.
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"Expertly blending history, theory, and contemporary practice, A User’s Guide to the Age of Tech offers a fresh and illuminating take on why our bodies still matter as much as the devices they control."—Lauren F. Klein, coauthor of Data Feminism
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