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Roedl, David James.

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Making things last: Digital obsolescence and its resistance by DIY culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making things last: Digital obsolescence and its resistance by DIY culture./
Author:	Roedl, David James.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	192 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International78-05B.
Subject:	Design. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10151383
ISBN:	9781369061475

Making things last: Digital obsolescence and its resistance by DIY culture.
Roedl, David James.

Making things last: Digital obsolescence and its resistance by DIY culture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 192 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2016.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The proliferation of digital technologies has brought myriad benefits to everyday life. At the same time, it has also brought harmful effects to the environment, including energy consumed in production (and its effects on climate change), and toxic e-waste produced in disposal, among other issues. These effects are compounded by the computing industry's dependence on business strategies that induce rapid and premature obsolescence. This issue has been a central concern for the HCI agenda of Sustainable Interaction Design (SID) (Blevis, 2007). In an effort to mitigate these effects, researchers have begun to study everyday practices that extend the useful life of devices, such as maintenance, repair and reuse. However, given the pervasiveness of rapid obsolescence, it is unclear whether and how these DIY activities might actually achieve significant change. For example, will the current political economy allow for companies to abandon obsolescence as a strategy for revenue generation? If not, what structural changes are needed to support the production of more durable products? This dissertation makes several contributions. First, it fills in theoretical gaps in order to more clearly explain why our current economy prefers rapid cycles of invention and disposal. Specifically, I argue that rapid obsolescence is driven by the internal contradictions of capital, and sustained by the social dynamics of fashion. A key implication is that slowing obsolescence requires a social movement capable of effecting change in the economic system. Based on this view, I then consider to what extent the sources of such a movement can be found within DIY/maker cultures. This is explored in two studies: an analysis of the maker as a subject of HCI discourse, and an analysis of the rhetoric of early hacker culture. These studies reveal several key issues that can inform the research and design of contemporary anti-obsolescence projects. I conclude by arguing for a strategic design approach that seeks to unite resistance operating at various scales into a broader collective movement.

ISBN: 9781369061475Subjects--Topical Terms:

518875
Design.

Making things last: Digital obsolescence and its resistance by DIY culture.
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