ISBN:
0262042487
,
9780262042482
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 290 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Software Studies
Series Statement:
Software studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4834
Keywords:
Computers and civilization
;
Computer software Social aspects
;
Computer software ; Social aspects
;
Computers and civilization
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction -- 1 Introducing Code/Space -- 2 The Nature of Software -- II The Difference Software Makes -- 3 Remaking Everyday Objects -- 4 The Transduction of Space -- 5 Automated Management -- 6 Software, Creativity, and Empowerment -- III The Transduction of Everyday Spatialities -- 7 Air Travel -- 8 Home -- 9 Consumption -- IV Future Code/Space -- 10 Everyware -- 11 A Manifesto for Software Studies -- Brief Glossary of Concepts -- Sources -- References -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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