Just Code

Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT

AvJeffrey R. Yost,Jeffrey R. Yost

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

How code shapes power and inequality across technology, governance, and global political economies.Code—whether software routines, legal frameworks, or informal social norms—shapes the world around us in profound and often invisible ways. In Just Code, editors Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz bring together a diverse group of scholars to examine how different forms of code both structure and reinforce power dynamics across societies.From algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence to global labor practices, this collection uncovers the hidden mechanisms by which code perpetuates inequality and injustice. It explores connections among technology, governance, and socioeconomic systems to reveal how code is both a tool of control and a product of the power structures it enables. Contributors analyze topics such as platform economies, algorithmic collusion, and labor practices in the tech industry, as well as how systems of representation and communication encode biases that amplify racial, gendered, and economic inequalities. These essays provide a critical lens for understanding how code intersects with politics and global cultures of technology production and use.By broadening the concept of "code" to include legal, social, and cultural systems, this collection challenges readers to see beyond the technical and interrogate the structures of power embedded in every layer of modern life. Just Code introduces a new framework for understanding the relationships among information technologies, systemic inequities, and the political economies that sustain them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-25
Mått:178 x 254 x 26 mm
Vikt:816 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Computing and Culture
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9781421452111

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Jeffrey R. Yost is the director of the Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information, and Culture and a research professor in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry. Gerardo Con Díaz is an associate professor of science and technology studies at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyrights Made the Online World.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Encoding an AnalyticGerardo Con Díaz and Jeffrey R. YostPart I. How does code become both a subject and a means of governance?1. Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China's Platform EconomyYa-Wen Lei2. Consent Code and Default DramasMeg Leta Jones3. A Mirror, Not a Glass Door: Legal Code and Software Code in PracticeJustin Petelka, Megan Finn, Janaki Srinivasan, Elisa Oreglia, and A. P. Janani4. Algorithmic Collusion, Modern Monopolies, and Their Market PowerHamid R. Ekbia5. Reopening the Politics of Openness in the Age of Cloud Computing: Reflections on Recent FOSS RelicensingShun-Ling Chen6. The Great E-book ConspiracyGerardo Con DíazPart II. How does code become infused with social values, assumptions, and biases?7. The Standard HeadStephanie Dick8. Spanning Space and Time Barriers: Computerized Conferencing, Disability, and CitizenshipElizabeth Petrick9. Pushing Fintech: Testing Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion, and "Rural Women" in PeruMariel García Llorens10. Corporate Culture Made Material: Ephemera and In/equity at Control Data Corporation, 1957–1975Elizabeth Semler11. Reassessing the Iconic and Unbundling the Ironic: IBM System Engineering, Gender, and AntitrustJeffrey R. Yost12. Y2K and the Politics of LaborDylan MulvinPart III. What does it mean to grapple with code?13. From Programming to Platform Expertise: Technical Reformers and the Reinvention of InstitutionsShreeharsh Kelkar14. Computers as Colonizers: British Computing Companies and Indian Technological Resistance, 1955–1975Mar Hicks15. The Mask of Humanity: Manipulation and Psychopathy at the Human-Computer InterfaceJennifer Alexander16. Cryptography Goes Public: Contesting the Meaning of a New Field in the 1970s United StatesGili Vidan17. Nodes and Codes: Iterating with the State in MéxicoHéctor BeltránEpilogue: Artificial Intelligence—Braiding Irony, Paradox, and PossibilityJeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con DíazContributorsIndex