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Digital culture shock : who creates technology and why this matters

Reinecke, Katharina, author

2025

Overview

Robots that encroach on your personal space, baffling emojis, a chatbot that gives you an answer that seems terribly rude - does any of this sound familiar? If so, you may know what it feels like to experience a clash of cultures, or even culture shock, in technology. Culture - shared values, norms, and behaviours - influences both the design of technology and its use. An encounter with new technology can teach us to embrace the unfamiliar, but a mismatch between design and user can create misunderstanding and loss of trust, and can even become a tool of digital imperialism. In this book, computer scientist Katharina Reinecke travels through countries and cultures around the world to show the many fascinating ways that technology design and use can differ.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Technology Social aspects. / Technology Cross-cultural studies. / Culture shock. / Society.
• ISBN: 9780691255811

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
T14.5 .R45 2025	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE