Undesigning technology: considering the negation of design by design

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

• Publication date

  2012-05-05

• Fields of study

  Philosophy, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1145/2207676.2208540
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