The Nature of SoftwareRob Kitchin, Martin Dodge
Zu finden in: Code/Space (Seite 23 bis 44), 2011
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Zusammenfassungen
In this chapter, we explore the variegated nature of software. In particular, we argue
that a comprehension of software must appreciate two aspects of code; first, that code
is a product of the world and second, that code does work in the world. Software as
both product and process, we argue, needs to be understood within a framework that
recognizes the contingent, relational, and situated nature of its development and use.
Von Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge im Buch Code/Space (2011) im Text The Nature of Software In this chapter we have detailed how we understand and conceptualize the nature of
software. Code is an expression of how computation both capture the world within
a system of thought (as algorithms and structures of capta) and a set of instructions
that tell digital hardware and communication networks how to act in the world. For
us, software needs to be theorized as both a contingent product of the world and a
relational producer of the world. Software is written by programmers, individually and
in teams, within diverse social, political, and economic contexts. The production of software unfolds — programming is performative and negotiated and code is mutable.
Software possesses secondary agency that engenders it with high technicity. As such,
software needs to be understood as an actant in the world — it augments, supplements,
mediates, and regulates our lives and opens up new possibilities — but not in a deterministic
way. Rather, software is afforded power by a network of contingencies that
allows it do work in the world. Software transforms and reconfigures the world in
relation to its own systems of thought. Thinking about software in these terms allows
us to start to critically think through its nature and to consider where and how it
works.
Von Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge im Buch Code/Space (2011) im Text The Nature of Software Dieses Kapitel erwähnt ...
Personen KB IB clear | Scott Rosenberg | ||||||||||||||||||
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Begriffe KB IB clear | Modellemodel , Naturnature , Programmierenprogramming , Simulation , Softwaresoftware | ||||||||||||||||||
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