Software Studies A Lexicon

A cultural field guide to software: artists, computer scientists, designers, cultural theorists, programmers, and others define a new field of study and practice. This collection of short expository, critical, and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social, and aesthet...

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Main Author: Fuller, Matthew
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass The MIT Press 18.04.2008
MIT Press
Edition:1
Series:Leonardo
Subjects:
Computer software
Computers and civilization
Computers and civilization > Encyclopedias
Digital Humanities & New Media
Encyclopedias
Information Science
Lexicography
Media Studies
Programming languages (Electronic computers)
Programming languages (Electronic computers) > Lexicography
Science, Technology & Society
Social Sciences
Software Studies
Technology and the arts
ISBN:9780262062749, 0262062747
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Algorithm -- Analog -- Button -- Class Library -- Code -- Codecs -- Computing Power -- Concurrent Versions System -- Copy -- Data Visualization -- Elegance -- Ethnocomputing -- Function -- Glitch -- Import / Export -- Information -- Intelligence -- Interaction -- Interface -- Internationalization -- Interrupt -- Language -- Lists -- Loop -- Memory -- Obfuscated Code -- Object Orientation -- Perl -- Pixel -- Preferences -- Programmability -- Sonic Algorithm -- Source Code -- System Event Sounds -- Text Virus -- Timeline (sonic) -- Variable -- Weird Languages -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index