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Code/space : software and everyday life
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Code/space : software and everyday life

Author: Rob Kitchin; Martin Dodge
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
Series: Software studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. Fro the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in for a landing, software is shaping our world. It creates new ways of undertaking tasks, speeds up and automates existing practices, transforms social and  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rob Kitchin; Martin Dodge
ISBN: 9780262042482 0262042487
OCLC Number: 657223754
Description: xi, 290 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introducing code/space --
The nature of software --
Remaking everyday objects --
The transduction of space --
Automated management --
Software, creativity, and empowerment --
Air travel --
Home --
Consumption --
Everyware --
A manifesto for software studies.
Series Title: Software studies.
Responsibility: Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge.

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An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.  Read more...

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"This is a critical work for anyone interested in the social relations of software and computers." -- P.L. Kantor, CHOICE "This is an important book about a growing trend that has received relatively Read more...

 
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