User Error

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2003

ISBN-13: 9781926662435

<p> <em>User Error</em> explodes the myth of computer technology as juggernaut. Multimedia educator Ellen Rose shows that there is no bandwagon, no out-of-control dynamo, no titanic conspiracy to overwhelm us. Instead, there is our own desire to join the fraternity of users, a fraternity that confers legitimacy and power on those who enter the brave new world. </p> <p> Rose exposes how we surrender decision-making power in personal and workplace computing situations. As users we willingly grant authority to the creators of software, support materials, and the seductive infrastructure of technocracy. </p> <p> “Smart” users are rewarded; reluctant users are pathologized. User identity is deliberately constructed at the crossroads of industry, consumer demand, and complicity. <em>User Error</em> sounds a timely alarm, calling on all of us who use the new technologies to recognize how we are being co-opted. With awareness we can reassert our own responsibility and power in this increasingly important interaction. </p> <p> Savvy, accessible, and up-to-date, <em>User Error</em> offers insight, inspiration, and strategies of resistance to general readers, technology professionals, students, and scholars alike. </p>