Abstractions and embodiments : new histories of computing and society / edited by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abbate, Janet, editor.

Dick, Stephanie, 1985- editor.

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Series:

Studies in computing and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computers--Social aspects.

Computers.

Computers and civilization.

Physical Description:

ix, 459 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"This anthology of original historical essays examines how social relations are enacted in and through computing using the twin frameworks of abstraction and embodiment. The book highlights a wide range of understudied contexts and experiences, such as computing and disability, working mothers as technical innovators, race and community formation, and gaming behind the Iron Curtain"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I ABSTRACTIONS

1. Waiting for Midnight: Risk Perception and the Millennium Bug / Zachary Loeb

2. Centrists against the Center: The Jeffersonian Politics of a Decentralized Internet / Marc Aidinoff

3. Beyond the Pale: The Blackbird Web Browser's Critical Reception / Andre Brock

4. Scientology Online: Copyright Infringement and the Legal Construction of the Internet / Gerardo Con Diaz

5. Patenting Automation of Race and Ethnicity Classifications: Protecting Neutral Technology or Disparate Treatment by Proxy? / Tiffany Nichols

6. "Difficult Things Are Difficult to Describe": The Role of Formal Semantics in European Computer Science, 1960-1980 / Troy Kaighin Astarte

7. What's in a Name? Origins, Transpositions, and Transformations of the Triptych Algorithm-Code-Program / Maarten Bullynck

8. The Lurking Problem / Scott Kushner

9. The Help Desk: Changing Images of Product Support in Personal Computing, 1975-1990 / Michael J. Halvorson

10. Power to the Clones: Hardware and Software Bricolage on the Periphery / Jaroslav Svelch

pt. II EMBODIMENTS

11. Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture / Lisa Nakamura

12. Inventing the Black Computer Professional / Kelcey Gibbons

13. The Baby and the Black Box: A History of Software, Sexism, and the Sound Barrier / Mar Hicks

14. Computing Nanyang: Information Technology in a Developing Singapore, 1965-1985 / Hallam Stevens

15. Engineering the Lay Mind: Lev Landa's Algo-Heuristic Theory and Artificial Intelligence / Ekaterina Babintseva

16. The Measure of Meaning: Automatic Speech Recognition and the Human-Computer Imagination / Xiaochang Li

17. Broken Mirrors: Surveillance in Oakland as Both Reflection and Refraction of California's Carceral State / Cierra Robson

18. Punk Culture and the Rise of the Hacker Ethic / Elyse Graham

19. The Computer as Prosthesis? Embodiment, Augmentation, and Disability / Elizabeth Petrick

20. "Have Any Remedies for Tired Eyes?": Computer Pain as Computer History / Laine Nooney.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781421444369

1421444364

9781421444376

1421444372

OCLC:

1286067639