TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coyne,Richard
TI  - Designing information technology in the postmodern age: from method to metaphor 
T2  - Leonardo Book Ser
SN  - 058502555X
AV  - T58.5 .C69 1995eb
U1  - 004.2/1/01 20
PY  - 1995///
KW  - Information technology
KW  - System design
KW  - Technology
KW  - Information storage and retrieval systems
KW  - Computer networks
KW  - Information Systems
KW  - Computer Communication Networks
KW  - Technologie de l'information
KW  - Conception de systèmes
KW  - Technologie
KW  - Systèmes d'information
KW  - Réseaux d'ordinateurs
KW  - information technology
KW  - aat
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - Software Development & Engineering
KW  - Systems Analysis & Design
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - cct
KW  - Information systems
KW  - fast
KW  - Electrical & Computer Engineering
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Engineering & Applied Sciences
KW  - Information Technology
KW  - COMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction
KW  - CULTURAL STUDIES/Critical Theory
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-386) and index; Computers and praxis -- Who is in control? -- Deconstruction and information technology -- Where in the world is cyberspace? -- Representation and reality -- Systematic design -- Metaphors and machines
N2  - Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age puts the theoretical discussion of computer systems and information technology on a new footing. Shifting the discourse from its usual rationalistic framework, Richard Coyne shows how the conception, development, and application of computer systems is challenged and enhanced by postmodern philosophical thought. He places particular emphasis on the theory of metaphor, showing how it has more to offer than notions of method and models appropriated from science. Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophical thinking - including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology, critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction - comparing them and showing how they differ in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications, computer representation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and multimedia. He also probes the claims made of information technology, including its presumptions of control, its so-called radicality, even its ability to make virtual worlds, and shows that many of these claims are poorly founded. Among the writings Coyne visits are works by Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Gadamer, Derrida, Habermas, Rorty, and Foucault. He relates their views to information technology designers and critics such as Herbert Simon, Alan Kay, Terry Winograd, Hubert Dreyfus, and Joseph Weizenbaum. In particular, Coyne draws extensively from the writing of Martin Heidegger, who has presented one of the most radical critiques of technology to date
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