A Person-Centered Guide to Demystifying Technology Working together to observe, question, design, prototype, and implement/reject technology in support of people's valued beings and doings

Digital technologies old and new are not objects that can be packed inside a box. They are a seamless, indivisible combination of people, organizations, policies, economies, histories, cultures, knowledge, and material things that are continuously shaped and reshaped. Every one of us innovates-in-us...

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Main Author: Wolske, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana, Illinois University of Illinois Library - Urbana 2023.
Edition:2nd Edition
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the Book
  • Orange Unit: A Person-Centered Launch
  • 1A: Information Systems
  • 1B: Introduction to Electronic Circuits
  • 2A: Critical Social + Technical Perspective
  • 2B: Electronic Components in Series
  • 3A: The Unknown Tech Innovators
  • 3B: Computer Building Blocks
  • 4A: Storytelling in the Information Sciences
  • 4B: Meet the Microcomputer
  • 4C: Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi
  • 4D: Coding Electronics
  • Orange Unit Review
  • Blue Unit: Computational Tinkering
  • 1A: The Logic of Hardware and Programming
  • 1B: Essential Coding Concepts
  • 2A: The Methodological Landscape
  • 2B: Make Music with Code
  • 3A: Valued, Inclusive Information and Computing Technology Experiences
  • 3B: Build Functions for Remixable Code
  • 4A: Sharing Our Counterstories
  • 4B: Raspberry Pi Counterstory Little Free Library
  • Blue Unit Review
  • REMIX: Ideating and Iterating Code: Scratch Example
  • Rainbow Unit: Networks Big and Small
  • 1A: Programmable Electronics, Smart Technology, and the Internet of Things
  • 1B: Connecting Our Electronic ‘Thing’ to a Wider World
  • 2A: Digital Internets, Past and Present
  • 2B: The Infrastructure of the Internet
  • 3A: The Digitization of Divides
  • 3B: A Person-Centered Network Information System Adventure
  • 4A: Recovering Community: Designing for Social Justice
  • 4B: Community-Centered Design: An Emergent Strategy for Community Organizing and Action
  • Rainbow Unit Review
  • Introducing the Unix Command Line
  • Raspberry Pi Networking 1010
  • Network Troubleshooting
  • Security and Privacy
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography