Transparent designs: personal computing and the politics of user-friendliness

"The author traces the emergence in the late 1970s and early 1980s of the belief that personal computers should be easy to use. He asks readers to consider the consequences of a computational culture grounded in the assumption that the average person does not need to know much, if anything, abo...

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Main Author: Black, Michael L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2022
Series:Studies in computing and culture
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"The author traces the emergence in the late 1970s and early 1980s of the belief that personal computers should be easy to use. He asks readers to consider the consequences of a computational culture grounded in the assumption that the average person does not need to know much, if anything, about the internal operations of the computers we have come to depend on"--
Physical Description:ix, 265 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781421443539
1421443538

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