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Ethnocomputing: ICT in cultural and social context

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Although culture has recently been recognized as one factor in interface design, CS and engineering are generally thought to be culturally neutral. The approach presented here recognizes society and culture in computational concepts and applications.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 1
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January 2006
123 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1107458
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