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Ethical programs : hospitality and the rhetorics of software / James J. Brown, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, James J., Jr.
- Series:
- Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
- Digital humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Internet.
- Computer software--Social aspects.
- Computer software.
- Databases--Social aspects.
- Databases.
- Freedom of information.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Explores the rhetorical potential and problems of a new era of hosts and guests, Living in a networked world means never really getting to decide in any thoroughgoing way who or what enters your "space" (your laptop, your iPhone, your thermostat ... your home). With this as a basic frame of-reference, James J. Brown's Ethical Programs examines and explores the rhetorical potential and problems of a lies pitality ethos suited to a new era of hosts and guests. Brown reads a range of computational strategies and actors including the general principles underwriting the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which determines how packets of information can travel through the internet, to the Obama election campaign's use of the power of protocols to reach voters, harvest their data, incentivize and, ultimately, shape their participation in the campaign. In demonstrating the kind of rhetorical spaces networked software establishes and the access t permits, prevents, and molds, Brown makes a major contribution to the emergent discourse of software studies as a major component of efforts 'n broad fields including media studies, rhetorical studies, and cultural studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Web Hosting: Hospitality and Ethical Programs 20
- Part 1 Hospitable Networks
- 2 Processing Power: Procedural Rhetoric and Protocol 45
- 3 Possibility Spaces: Exploits and Persuasion 72
- Part 2 Hospitable Databases
- 4 Database Integrity: Ethos and the Archive 103
- 5 Rhetorical Devices: Database, Narrative, and Machinic Thinking 134.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472072736
- 9780472052738
- 9780472121236
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/dh.13474172.0001.001
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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