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How to Do Things with Sensors

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Jennifer Gabrys

Sensors are increasingly common within citizen-sensing and DIY projects, but these devices often require the use of a how-to guide. From online instructional videos for troubleshooting sensor installations to handbooks for using and abusing the Internet of Things, the how-to genres and formats of digital instruction continue to expand and develop. As the how-to proliferates, and instructions unfold through multiple aspects of technoscientific practices, Jennifer Gabrys asks why the how-to has become one of the prevailing genres of the digital. How to Do Things with Sensors explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made sense-able and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects.

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  • @jcudden

    Empowering people to influence change through data. Citizen sensing kits to monitor traffic as part of @WecountH Gr… https://t.co/RqZuZDap8f

    December 05, 2020
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    Transforming citizen sensing | Waag https://t.co/c2nA0alP8y via @waag

    December 04, 2020
  • @waag

    Waar moet de ideale sensor aan voldoen? Op 9 en 10 december organiseren we samen met @SODAQ een online conferentie… https://t.co/FkGk8s1aKB

    December 03, 2020
  • @waag

    Transforming citizen sensing: are you interested in sensors and measuring air quality? Work with us and @SODAQ as w… https://t.co/6rJpYGAbQE

    November 29, 2020
  • @CleanAirDayEU

    Join this very interesting event. Transforming citizen sensing | Waag https://t.co/cQdjqACl0p via @waag @JudithVeenkamp

    November 27, 2020
  • @Ideas_4_Change

    The #BristolApproach is a framework designed to ensure that new technologies developed in the framework of… https://t.co/WJ1uFwmWPd

    November 25, 2020

Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction: How to Do Things with Sensors
  • How to Construct Tool Kits
  • How to Connect Sensors
  • How to Devise Instruments
  • How to Build Networks
  • How to Test Resistance
  • How to Retool Tool Kits
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • About the Author

Metadata

  • rights
    The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement no. 313347, “Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice: Assessing Participatory Engagements with Environments through Sensor Technologies.”

    How to Do Things with Sensors by Jennifer Gabrys is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
  • edition
    1
  • isbn
    978-1-4529-6409-6
  • issn
    2373-5074
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • restrictions
    Please see the Creative Commons website for details about the restrictions associated with the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
  • rights holder
    Jennifer Gabrys
  • rights territory
    World
  • series number
    34
  • series title
    Forerunners: Ideas First
  • version
    1.0
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452964096
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