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The Science of Fun and the War on Poverty
William Lockett
William Lockett
William Lockett is a Ph.D. candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. His dissertation is a prehistory of the personal computer in America in the 1960s. Arguing that preliterate children were model organisms from which researchers extracted a model of the ideal user, he tracks alternative genealogies of personal computing through the War on Poverty, cybernetic psychiatry, and video culture.
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William Lockett
William Lockett is a Ph.D. candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. His dissertation is a prehistory of the personal computer in America in the 1960s. Arguing that preliterate children were model organisms from which researchers extracted a model of the ideal user, he tracks alternative genealogies of personal computing through the War on Poverty, cybernetic psychiatry, and video culture.
Online Issn: 1536-0105
Print Issn: 1526-3819
© 2019 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Grey Room (2019) (74): 6–43.
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William Lockett; The Science of Fun and the War on Poverty. Grey Room 2019; (74): 6–43. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00262
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