Dictionary of Computer Terms by Bryan Pfaffenberger

Dictionary of Computer Terms by Bryan Pfaffenberger

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American cultural productions repeatedly have depicted Abraham Lincoln as living on as a spirit after his assassination in 1865. The unprecedented death toll of the Civil War coupled with the uncertain future of African American citizenship in the years after the war led Americans, both black and white, to imagine and re-imagine how a living Lincoln would have responded to contemporary issues in the United States.

As they grappled with Lincoln's legacy for American race relations, artists, writers, and other creators of American culture did not simply remember Lincoln but envisioned him as an ongoing spiritual presence in everyday life. Immediately after the Civil War, when the American Spiritualist movement encouraged the bereaved to believe that departed loved ones watched over and comforted the living, popular prints and spirit photography depicted Lincoln's ghost remaining to guide the American people. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, actors who played Lincoln on the American stage presented themselves as embodied forms of his spirit, in the process eschewing Lincoln's political achievement of Emancipation in favor of sentimental portrayals of his boyhood and family life. Fine artists and illustrators turned to Lincoln's spirit as they attempted to use their work to promote African American equality.

Walt Disney, the creator of the Lincoln Audioanimatron theme park attraction, used technological means to bring to life a robotic Lincoln that could never die. And ordinary Americans from all walks of life have been drawn to the places that Lincoln lived and the objects that he owned in the belief that they serve as a conduit to his spirit. These demonstrate how memory functions not only as a set of ideas about the past but also as a living force in the present.

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Pfaffenberger, Bryan: - In 1985, convinced that technology represented an area ripe for social analysis, I resigned a tenured position in anthropology in order to take a tenure-track job in the University of Virginia′s School of Engineering and Applied Science. The School′s Dean, a distinguished material scientist named Ed Starke, encouraged me to pursue two goals in my research: first, to persuade my colleagues in anthropology to study technology, and second, to bring anthropological theory to technology studies. The risky move proved to be a wise one: I was tenured in 1990, joining what must be a very small club (namely, those who have received tenure in two different research fields). But best of all, I was at Ground Zero during the heady years of science studies′ turn to technology (1986-1995). I found science & technology studies (STS) to be both inspiring and stimulating, and during this time I produced some work that continues to be read and cited in the literature. On this page, you′ll find the full text of some of my favorites. And as you′ll see, I took Ed′s advice to heart. If you′re wondering why I haven′t published much since the early 2000s, the answer is illness. I had a bout with cancer; the disease, but even more so the treatment, including an early and nearly fatal misdiagnosis, left me unable to do much more than meet my classes, grade papers, and attend meetings. I′m happy to say that I′m disease-free and feeling better, finally. I′m just now completing a National Science Foundation-funded study of the history of voting machines, conceptualized as -- you guessed it -- a technological drama. Do let me hear from you if you′re interested in my work! Getting back into serious scholarly writing after a decade of ill health isn′t easy, but I′m inspired and energized when I discover that others have found my work useful.

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ISBN 13	9780028637778
ISBN 10	0028637771
Titre	Dictionary of Computer Terms
Auteur	Bryan Pfaffenberger
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Wiley
Année de publication	2000-02-01
Nombre de pages	592
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