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Software Studies: A Lexicon
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This collection of short expository, critical, and speculative texts offers a
field guide to the cultural, political, social, and aesthetic impact of
software. Computing and digital media are essential to the way we work and live,
and much has been said about their influence. But the very material of software
has often been left invisible. In Software Studies, computer scientists,
artists, designers, cultural theorists, programmers, and others from a range of
disciplines each take on a key topic in the understanding of software and the
work that surrounds it. These include algorithms; logical structures; ways of
thinking and doing that leak out of the domain of logic and into everyday life;
the value and aesthetic judgments built into computing; programming's own
subcultures; and the tightly formulated building blocks that work to make, name,
multiply, control, and interweave reality.

Table Of Contents

series foreword ix
acknowledgments xi
introduction 1
algorithm 15
analog 21
button 31
class library 37
code 40
codecs 48
computing power 55
concurrent versions system 64
copy 70
data visualization 78
elegance 87
ethnocomputing 92
function 101
glitch 110
import / export 119
information 125
intelligence 132
interaction 143
interface 149
internationalization 153
interrupt 161
language 168
lists 174
loop 179
memory 184
obfuscated code 193
object orientation 200
perl 207
pixel 213
preferences 218
programmability 224
sonic algorithm 229
source code 236
system event sounds 243
text virus 250
timeline (sonic) 256
variable 260
weird languages 267
bibliography 277
about the contributors 313
index 321

Product Details

* ISBN: 0262062747
* ISBN-13: 9780262062749
* Format: Hardcover, 334pp
* Publisher: MIT Press
* Pub. Date: May 2008

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