Contact The MIT Press Information on how to order from The MIT Press Access your saved shopping cart, e-mail list subscriptions, order history, address book, and other info in the Your Profile area MIT Press Home Page


September 2001
5 3/8 x 8, 120 pp.
$40.00/£29.95 (CLOTH)
Short

ISBN-10:
0-262-12244-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-12244-3

Other Editions
Paper (2001)
Series
Mediaworks Pamphlets
Related Links
Find this book in a library
Utopian Entrepreneur
Brenda Laurel
Designed by Denise Gonzales Crisp


A heady hybrid of critical thinking, personal narrative, and economic analysis, Utopian Entrepreneur is a field manual for those who want to do socially positive work in the context of business. One of the few Silicon Valley veterans who participated in all four of the major computer tech bubbles—games, multimedia, virtual reality, and dot-coms—Brenda Laurel is known for injecting humanistic values into computer-based media.

Laurel interweaves her ideas on how to conduct socially progressive business with the saga of her experiences with the Interval Research Corporation and as the founder of the pioneering girls' software company Purple Moon.

About the Author

Brenda Laurel is Chair of the graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and was the co-founder of Purple Moon. She is the author of Utopian Entrepreneur (MIT Press, 2001).


Reviews

"a worthy manual for anyone striving to create a successful business model out of socially positive work."
Christy Mulligan, New Jersey Computer User Magazine

"In a better world, the road to wealth would be lined with people like Laurel."
Noah Robischon, Entertainment Weekly

"this small book achieves consciousness and pleasure through design and word with an added appeal to touch."
Marcell Hackbardt, Afterimage

View All Reviews





See Other Titles In:
New Media
 General
Science, Technology, and Society
 The Internet & Cyberculture
 
Join an E-mail Alert List


 
 
TECHNOLOGY PARTNER: Azility, Inc. TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | COPYRIGHT © 2009