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文化的计算

Cultures of Computing
课程网址: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-350j-cultures-of-comp...  
主讲教师: Stefan Helmreich
开课单位: 麻省理工学院
开课时间: 2011-01-01
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
本课程以人类学的方式检查计算机,作为揭示社会秩序和创造它们的文化习俗的文物。学生阅读计算机科学中的经典文本以及计算历史和当代配置的文化分析。它探讨了自动机,自动化和资本主义制造的历史;控制论和二战运作研究;人工智能和性别主体性;机器人,半机械人和人造生命;个人计算机的创造和商品化;互联网作为军事,学术和商业项目的增长;黑客和游戏玩家;技术组织和虚拟社交。重点放在关于性别和其他社会差异的观念如何塑造劳动实践,认知模型,黑客文化和社交媒体。
课程简介: This course examines computers anthropologically, as artifacts revealing the social orders and cultural practices that create them. Students read classic texts in computer science along with cultural analyses of computing history and contemporary configurations. It explores the history of automata, automation and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research; artificial intelligence and gendered subjectivity; robots, cyborgs, and artificial life; creation and commoditization of the personal computer; the growth of the Internet as a military, academic, and commercial project; hackers and gamers; technobodies and virtual sociality. Emphasis is placed on how ideas about gender and other social differences shape labor practices, models of cognition, hacking culture, and social media.
关 键 词: 人工智能和性别主体; 控制论和二战运筹学; 自动化和资本主义的生产
课程来源: 麻省理工学院公开课
最后编审: 2020-11-27:yumf
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