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Branch: 卢湾分馆(明复) AND 嘉定华亭镇 AND 闵行马桥镇

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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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Main Authors: Becker, Christoph (Director of the Digital Curation Institute) (Author)
Published: The MIT Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Electronic data processing > Social aspects.
Computer systems > Environmental aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Sustainable development.
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

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