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Translating Technology in Africa, Volume 1: Metrics by Richard Rottenburg, Faeeza Ballim, Bronwyn Kotzen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Translating Technology in Africa, Volume 1: Metrics about?
Translating Technology in Africa brings together authors from different disciplines who engage with Science and Technology Studies (STS) to stimulate curiosity about the diversity of sociotechnical assemblages on the African continent. -The contributions provide detailed praxeographic examinations of technologies at work in postcolonial contexts. The series of 5 volumes aims to catalyse the development of a field of research that is still in its infancy in Africa and promises to offer novel insights into past, present, and future challenges and opportunities facing the continent. -The first volume, on "Metrics", explores practices of quantification and digitisation. The chapters examine how numbers are aggregated and how the resulting metrics shape new realities.
Who reads Translating Technology in Africa, Volume 1: Metrics?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Rottenburg, Faeeza Ballim, Bronwyn Kotzen
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004678354
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Social & Cultural Aspects Of Technology, Stem
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