Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America
Schrock, Aure
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-09-24
- 售價: $1,720
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,634
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 250
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 026254945X
- ISBN-13: 9780262549455
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商品描述
The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society. For decades, tens of thousands of volunteers and employees of Code for America have taken a different path to institutional change: through designing and implementing infrastructure. In Politics Recoded, Aure Schrock employs a robust, organizational ethnography to analyze how Code for America's infrastructural organizing changed how politics get exercised, showing how we citizens can work directly with the government on projects to improve our collective livelihoods. Drawing from theories of organizing, social infrastructure, racialized organizations, technical cultures, and intersectionality, Schrock argues that our "post-techlash society" must no longer presume that corporate platforms or social networks can level social inequities. An underrecognized yet influential organization, Code for America emerged from a tech culture background that prioritized networks and publicity over the long, slow work of institutional change. But its evolution demonstrates how to push beyond the fundamental flaws of tech-forward organizing. This, the first history of Code for America, shows how promoting agentic citizenship and brokering in empathy let the organization influence policy at all levels of government--and demonstrates why we need to bolster institutions to ensure that everyone is justly represented and receiving the benefits. Appealing to those in political science, communication, and information studies, Politics Recoded will empower practitioners and activists to revolutionize technological design and participate in alternative forms of civic engagement.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
《Code for America》的首部詳細歷史,探討如何以民主設計的政府系統共同改善科技對社會的影響。
數十年來,數萬名志願者和《Code for America》的員工採取了不同的制度變革之路:通過設計和實施基礎設施。在《Politics Recoded》中,Aure Schrock運用強有力的組織民族誌分析《Code for America》的基礎設施組織如何改變政治的運作方式,展示我們公民如何能夠直接與政府合作,進行改善我們共同生計的項目。Schrock從組織理論、社會基礎設施、種族化組織、技術文化和交叉性等理論出發,主張我們的「後科技反彈社會」不再應假設企業平台或社交網絡能夠平衡社會不平等。
《Code for America》是一個未被充分認識但卻具有影響力的組織,源自一種重視網絡和宣傳的科技文化背景,而非漫長而緩慢的制度變革工作。但其演變展示了如何超越以科技為先的組織的根本缺陷。這部《Code for America》的首部歷史,顯示了如何促進主動公民身份和同理心的中介,使該組織能夠在各級政府影響政策,並展示了為何我們需要加強制度,以確保每個人都能得到公正的代表和利益。這本書對政治學、傳播學和資訊研究領域的人士具有吸引力,將使從業者和活動家能夠徹底改變技術設計,並參與替代形式的公民參與。
作者簡介
Aure Schrock is Founder and Senior Editor at the academic editing and writing coaching company Indelible Voice, and author of Civic Tech: Making Technology Work for People.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Aure Schrock 是學術編輯和寫作輔導公司 Indelible Voice 的創辦人及資深編輯,也是《Civic Tech: Making Technology Work for People》的作者。