We examine the work careers these imaginaries do for projects to as OLPC by evoking deeply held feelings about the value of memory types of) play, creativity, and learning and the kind of child capable of the In reviewing OLPC by rose the social imaginary of personalization technically precocious boy, which developed as it alternative to dominant education of masculinity in the United States. This imaginary shows a “natural” mastery of technical toys as well established a particular kind of the sensibility but enables technical tinkering – but also still exclusionary by connecting technical prowess to boys in particular.

Ames, M. G. (2019). OLPC’s Charismatic Roots: Constructionism, MIT’s Hacker Culture And the Technically Precocious boy. In The Charisma Machine. MIT Press.