How to do things with sensors /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gabrys, Jennifer (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Series:Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (97 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1452963061
9781452963068
9781517908317
1517908310