An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
Sensors are increasingly common within citizen-sensing and DIY projects, but these devices often require the use of a how-to guide. From online instructional videos for troubleshooting sensor installations to handbooks for using and abusing the Internet of Things, the how-to genres and formats of digital instruction continue to expand and develop. As the how-to proliferates, and instructions unfold through multiple aspects of technoscientific practices, Jennifer Gabrys asks why the how-to has become one of the prevailing genres of the digital. How to Do Things with Sensors explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made sense-able and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects.
Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
| ISBN: | 9781517908317 |
| Publication date: | 13th August 2019 |
| Author: | Jennifer Gabrys |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 97 pages |
| Series: | Forerunners |
| Genres: |
Electronic devices and materials Impact of science and technology on society |