How to Do Things with Sensors

An Investigation Of How-to Guides For Sensor Technologies 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. Forerunners: Ideas First Short Books Of Thought-in-process Scholarship, Where Intense Analysis, Questioning, And Speculation Take The Lead