Insolvent : how to reorient computing for just sustainability /
"This book proposes a framework for the design of systems that will advance social and environmental justice along with technical and economic objectives"--
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The MIT Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
Publication Dates: | [2023] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
"This book proposes a framework for the design of systems that will advance social and environmental justice along with technical and economic objectives"-- |
Carrier Form: | x, 388 pages : illustrations, map, forms ; 23 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-370) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780262545600 0262545608 |
Index Number: | QA76 |
CLC: | G202-05 |
Call Number: | G202-05/B395 |
Contents: | Introduction: Just Sustainability Design -- I. Is Computing Insolvent? -- 1. The Design of Sustainability -- 2. Just Sustainabilities and the Debts of Computing -- 3. The Myths of Computing -- 4. Problemism: The Insolvency of Computational Thinking -- II. Restructuring -- 5. Computing's Critical Friends -- 6. Software Is Never Neutral: How Do Values Become Facts? -- 7. People Are More Than Rational: Beware the Normative Fallacy -- 8. Problems Are Framings: The Discordant Pluralism of Just Sustainability Design -- III. Reorienting Systems Design -- 9. Leverage Points for Change: From Insolvent Computing to Just Sustainability Design -- 10. Critical Requirements Practice -- 11. Searching for Just, Sustainable Design Decisions -- 12. A Silicone Ring: Social Responsibility and Collective Action -- Conclusion: This Changes Computing -- References -- Index |