Diana E. Forsythe was a leading anthropologist of science, technology, and work, and especially of the field of artificial intelligence. This volume collects her best-known essays, along with other major works that remained unpublished upon her death in 1997. The essays proceed as a series of developing variations on the key questions that still confront science and technology studies today. What assumptions do expert systems designers make about users, and about knowledge more broadly, when they build software? How should humans interact with computers, and how do they, really? Why do computing firms hire anthropologists to study human-computer interaction, and what do anthropologists find once they are hired? And how and why are traditional power asymmetries between men and women produced and maintained in engineering firms and laboratories?
- ISBN10 0804741417
- ISBN13 9780804741415
- Publish Date 1 August 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stanford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English