Document (#44327)

Editor
Abbate, J.
Dick, S.
Title
Abstractions and embodiments : new histories of computing and society
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Year
2022
Pages
ix, 459 S
Isbn
978-1-4214-4437-6
Series
Studies in computing and culture
Abstract
Using twin frameworks of abstraction and embodiment, a reformulation of the old mind-body dichotomy, this anthology examines how social relations are enacted in and through computing. The authors examining "Abstraction" revisit central concepts in computing, including "algorithm," "program," "clone," and "risk." In doing so, they demonstrate how the meanings of these terms reflect power relations and social identities. The section on "Embodiments" focuses on sensory aspects of using computers as well as the ways in which gender, race, and other identities have shaped the opportunities and embodied experiences of computer workers and users. Offering a rich and diverse set of studies in new areas, the book explores such disparate themes as disability, the influence of the punk movement, working mothers as technical innovators, and gaming behind the Iron Curtain. This volume reimagines computing history by questioning canonical interpretations, foregrounding new actors and contexts, and highlighting neglected aspects of computing as an embodied experience. It makes the profound case that both technology and the body are culturally shaped and that there can be no clear distinction between social, intellectual, and technical aspects of computing.
Content
Thinking with Computers; Part I. Abstractions; Chapter 1. Waiting for Midnight: Risk Perception and the Millennium Bug; Chapter 2. Centrists against the Center: The Jeffersonian Politics of a Decentralized Internet; Chapter 3. Beyond the Pale: The Blackbird Web Browser's Critical Reception; Chapter 4. Scientology Online: Copyright Infringement and the Legal Construction of the Internet; Chapter 5. Patenting Automation of Race and Ethnicity Classifications: Protecting Neutral Technology or Disparate Treatment by Proxy?; Chapter 6. "Difficult Things Are Difficult to Describe": The Role of Formal Semantics in European Computer Science, 1960-1980; Chapter 7. What's in a Name? Origins, Transpositions, and Transformations of the Triptych Algorithm-Code-Program; Chapter 8. The Lurking Problem; Chapter 9. The Help Desk: Changing Images of Product Support in Personal Computing, 1975-1990; Chapter 10. Power to the Clones: Hardware and Software Bricolage on the Periphery; Part II: Embodiments; Chapter 11. Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture; Chapter 12. Inventing the Black Computer Professional; Chapter 13. The Baby and the Black Box: A History of Software, Sexism, and the Sound Barrier; Chapter 14. Computing Nanyang: Information Technology in a Developing Singapore, 1965-1985; Chapter 15. Engineering the Lay Mind: Lev Landa's Algo-Heuristic Theory and Artificial Intelligence; Chapter 16. The Measure of Meaning: Automatic Speech Recognition and the Human-Computer Imagination; Chapter 17. Broken Mirrors: Surveillance in Oakland as Both Reflection and Refraction of California's Carceral State; Chapter 18. Punk Culture and the Rise of the Hacker Ethic; Chapter 19. The Computer as Prosthesis? Embodiment, Augmentation, and Disability; Chapter 20. "Have Any Remedies for Tired Eyes?": Computer Pain as Computer History; Afterword. Beyond Abstractions and Embodiments Contributors: Janet Abbate, Marc Aidinoff, Troy Kaighin Astarte, Ekaterina Babinsteva, André Brock, Maarten Bullynck, Jiahui Chan, Gerardo Con Diaz, Liesbeth De Mol, Stephanie Dick, Kelcey Gibbons, Elyse Graham, Michael J. Halvorson, Mar Hicks, Scott Kushner, Xiaochang Li, Zachary Loeb, Lisa Nakamura, Tiffany Nichols, Laine Nooney, Elizabeth Petrick, Cierra Robson, Hallam Stevens, Jaroslav Svelch
Footnote
Rez. in: JASIST 75(2024) no.8., S.932-933 (Tim Gorichanaz).
Field
Informatik
LCSH
Computers / Social aspects
Computers and civilization
RSWK
Computer
Digitale Revolution
Sozialer Wandel
Gesellschaft
BK
54.01 Geschichte der Informatik
RVK
SR 850
MS 4850

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