Insolvent how to reorient computing for just sustainability /

"This book proposes a framework for the design of systems that will advance social and environmental justice along with technical and economic objectives"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Becker, Christoph (Director of the Digital Curation Institute) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
Physical Description:
x, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Electronic data processing -- Social aspects.
Computer systems -- Environmental aspects.
Information technology -- Social aspects.
Sustainable development.
Contents:
  • Introduction: Just Sustainability Design
  • I. Is Computing Insolvent?
  • 1. The Design of Sustainability
  • 2. Just Sustainabilities and the Debts of Computing
  • 3. The Myths of Computing
  • 4. Problemism: The Insolvency of Computational Thinking
  • II. Restructuring
  • 5. Computing's Critical Friends
  • 6. Software Is Never Neutral: How Do Values Become Facts?
  • 7. People Are More Than Rational: Beware the Normative Fallacy
  • 8. Problems Are Framings: The Discordant Pluralism of Just Sustainability Design
  • III. Reorienting Systems Design
  • 9. Leverage Points for Change: From Insolvent Computing to Just Sustainability Design
  • 10. Critical Requirements Practice
  • 11. Searching for Just, Sustainable Design Decisions
  • 12. A Silicone Ring: Social Responsibility and Collective Action
  • Conclusion: This Changes Computing
  • References
  • Index.

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