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21a.350j文化计算(麻省理工学院)

21A.350J Cultures of Computing (MIT)
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:
本课程从人类学的角度考察计算机, 作为揭示创造它们的社会秩序和文化习俗的文物。学生们阅读计算机科学中的经典文本, 以及对计算历史和当代结构的文化分析。探讨了自动机、自动化和资本主义制造的历史;控制论和二战行动研究;人工智能与性别主体性;机器人、机器人和人造生命;个人计算机的创建和商品化;互联网作为一个军事、学术和商业项目的发展;黑客和玩家;技术机构和虚拟社会。重点是关于性别和其他社会差异的观念如何塑造劳动实践、认知模式、黑客攻击文化和社交媒体。
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: 人类学; 社会秩序; 文化; 计算机科学; 文化分析计算
课程来源: 麻省理工学院公开课
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