Studies in Computing and Culture – serie
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Transparent Designs
Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness
Inbunden, 2022
615 kr
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This fascinating cultural history of the personal computer explains how user-friendly design allows tech companies to build systems that we cannot understand.Modern personal computers are easy to use, and their welcoming, user-friendly interfaces encourage us to see them as designed for our …
Abstractions and Embodiments
New Histories of Computing and Society
Av Janet Abbate, Stephanie Dick
Häftad, 2022
466 kr
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Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different …
Digitizing Diagnosis
Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America
Inbunden, 2023
657 kr
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A fascinating history of the first attempts to computerize medical diagnosis.Winner of the 2026 CBI Human-Computer Interaction History Prize from the Charles Babbage InstituteBeginning in the 1950s, interdisciplinary teams of physicians, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers began to explore …
Just Code
Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT
Av Jeffrey R. Yost, Jeffrey R. Yost m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
753 kr
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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 …
Machining the Vote
The Forgotten Story of the Mechanical Voting Machine, and Why It Matters
Häftad, 2026
556 kr
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How a hulking machine helped build and sustain American democracy in the mid-twentieth century.For more than a century, the mechanical lever voting machine stood in polling places across the United States. Unwieldy, unloved, and eventually discarded, it rarely attracted admiration. Yet as Bryan …
