Feminist in a software lab : difference + design / Tara McPherson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McPherson, Tara, author.

Series:

MetaLABprojects

Metalabprojects

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital humanities.

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

Software engineering--Social aspects.

Software engineering.

Computers and women.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Tara McPherson asks what might it mean to design--from conception--digital tools and applications that emerge from contextual concerns of cultural theory and from a feminist concern for difference. This question leads to the Vectors lab, which for a dozen years has experimented with digital scholarship at the intersection of theory and praxis.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface. Opening Vectors

How to read this book

List of fellow travelers

1. Designing for difference

Into the fray

Modularity at midcentury: thinking race + UNIX

Situating UNIX

Modularity in the social field

Moving beyond our boxes + mapping materialisms

WINDOW 1: introducing Vectors

2. Assembling scholarship: from Vectors to Scalar

On process

WINDOW 2: the look + feel of Vectors

WINDOW 3: making stolen time

Reimaging content and form

WINDOW 4: various vectors

Scaling Vectors

WINDOW 5: the Scalar feature set + showcase

Outro. Scholarship in the wild.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780674728943

0674728947

OCLC:

945571295