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User Localization Strategies in the Face of Technological Breakdown: Biometric in Ghana’s Elections - Couverture souple

Dorpenyo, Isidore Kafui

 
9783030264017: User Localization Strategies in the Face of Technological Breakdown: Biometric in Ghana’s Elections
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3030264017 ISBN 13 : 9783030264017
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This book examines Ghana’s use of the fingerprint biometric technology in order to further conversations about localization championed by technical communication scholars. Localization, in this case, refers to the extent to which users demonstrate their knowledge of use by subverting and reconfiguring the purpose of technology to solve local problems. Dorpenyo argues that the success of a technology depends on how it meets the users’ needs and the creative efforts users put into use situations. In User Localization Strategies in the Face of Technological Breakdown, Dorpenyo advocates studying how users of technological systems construct knowledge about the technology and develop local strategies to solve technological breakdowns. By analyzing technical documents and interview transcripts, the author identifies and advances three user localization strategies: linguistic localization, subversive localization, and user-heuristic experience localization, and considers how biometric systems can become a tool of marginalization.

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À propos de l'auteur

Isidore Kafui Dorpenyo is Assistant Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric at George Mason University, USA. His research focuses on election technology, international technical communication, social justice, and localization. He co-edited a special issue of Technical Communication focused on technical communication and election technologies. Dorpenyo has also published in Technical Communication Quarterly, the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, and Community Literacy journal.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3030264017
ISBN 13 
9783030264017
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
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