Books written by Yolande Strengers
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The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot
Anne Fausto - Sterling , Myths of Gender : Biological Theories about Women and Men ( New York : Basic Books , 2008 ) ; Sally Gregory Kohlstedt , “ Women in the History of Science : An Ambiguous Place , " Osiris 10 , no .
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The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot
In The Smart Wife, Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy examine the emergence of digital devices that carry out "wifework"--domestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives.
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Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability: Beyond behaviour change
Attentive Cleaning (15 per cent of the population) involved a shower or bath at least daily. ... The homes of these practitioners were also more likely to contain a power shower, two or more baths but no water meter.
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Design Ethnography: Research, Responsibilities, and Futures
... on the social as the site of experimentation, learning and transformation, participatory, speculative and creative design practice is brought together with deep sensory and visual ethnographic engagements with the experimental.
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Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans: Nature, Materials and Technologies
This book is concerned with how to account for these non-humans and their effects within theories of social practice.
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The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot
... such as water fountains or nature imagery streamed to screens inside or outside the home ( figure 4.3 ) .69 More broadly , pleasance resonates with what professor of mass communication Davin Heckman calls the smart home's pursuit of ...
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Design Ethnography: Research, Responsibilities, and Futures
"This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography.
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Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability: Beyond behaviour change
This book shows how we can go beyond behaviour change in the pursuit of sustainability.
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Design Ethnography: Research, Responsibilities, and Futures
This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography, via a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and ethical research design, practice, and engagement.