Appropriating technology : vernacular science and social power / Ron Eglash ... [et al.], editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Appropriating technology : an introduction / Ron Eglash -- I. Body tech / Edited by Jennifer L. Croissant -- 1. The uses of scientific fact : Pasteur's public experiment on anthrax in the popular press of the time / Massimiano Bucchi -- 2. The bodybuilder's pharmacy / Jennifer L. Croissant -- 3. "All in my bag of tricks" : turning a trick with the appropriate(d) technology / Lisa Jean Moore -- 4. Anal sex and the female condom : are gay men getting a bum wrap? / Michael Scarce -- 5. Border skirmishes : gender, new technologies, and the persistence of structure / Hank Bromley -- II. Information technologies / Edited by Ron Eglash -- 6. The scratch is hip-hop : appropriating the phonographic medium / David Albert Mhadi Goldberg -- 7. Cultural paths to computing : African American women in a community technology center / Samuel M. Hampton -- 8. Cyberfeminism meets NAFTAzteca : recoding the technotext / Virginia Eubanks -- 9. Propagating alternative journalism through social justice cyberspace : the appropriation of computer networks for alternative media development in the 1990s / Brian Martin Murphy -- 10. The American Indian computer art project : an interview with Turtle Heart / Ron Eglash -- III. Environments / Edited by Giovanna Di Chiro -- 11. Science by the people : grassroots environmental monitoring and the debate over scientific expertise / Michael K. Heiman -- 12. Local actions, global visions : remaking environmental expertise / Giovanna Di Chiro -- 13. The use of computerized GIS mapping systems in the struggle for environmental justice / Carmen M. Concepcion -- 14. Encounters between community-based knowledge and environmental science : an interview with Linda Price King / Giovanna Di Chiro -- 15. Appropriate/d technology, cultural revival, and environmental activism : a native American case study / Valerie Kuletz -- 16. "Whose trees/interpretations are these?" : bridging the divide between subjects and outsider-researchers / Peter Taylor -- IV. Invention / Edited by Rayvon Fouche -- 17. Not made for black history month : Lewis Latimer and technological assimilation / Rayvon Fouche -- 18. Unexpected pleasures : phonographs and cultural identities in America, 1895-1915 / Lisa Gitelman -- 19. Close encounters of another kind : young gay men and the technological self / Richard M. Benjamin -- 20. Up the Velorution : appropriating the bicycle and the politics of technology / Paul Rosen.