Topic
Critical code studies
About: Critical code studies is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26 publications have been published within this topic receiving 185 citations.
Papers
TL;DR: In this paper, a review essay looks at the range of digital tools available for conducting book history; the importance of software studies, platform studies, critical code studies, and media archaeology for book historians; and the intertwined connections between print and digital in the production and dissemination of today's books.
Abstract: While popular imagination has “the digital” opposed to “the book,” the two are now inextricably linked. This review essay looks at the range of digital tools available for conducting book history; the importance of software studies, platform studies, critical code studies, and media archaeology for book historians; and the intertwined connections between print and digital in the production and dissemination of today’s books. The authors argue for understanding the necessities of understanding the myriad relationships between page and screen, and the abiding materiality of the digital form.
74 citations
TL;DR: It is argued that four authorizing strategies used in this work: conflating people with devices, assuming actors conform to notions of economic rationality, appealing to technical expertise, and explaining contradictions as temporary bugs are mobilized widely to legitimize a variety of applications of algorithmic regulation and peer production projects.
Abstract: Subscribing to a techno-utopian discourse replacing institutions and experts with “trust in code,” digital alternative currency Bitcoin is pitched as a “math-based money” governed by incorruptible ...
73 citations
TL;DR: An analysis of the online exhibition ‘Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum’ highlights the manner in which the ‘virtual’ visitor experience is structured in a fashion comparable to the “real” visitor experience.
35 citations
TL;DR: The technical features of Open APIs are identified and the subtle power that restricts their openness is examined, and ways to critically understand the openness of software and their politics are suggested.
Abstract: As a way to provide services or data to third-party developers, Open Application Programming Interfaces (Open APIs) have gained popularity among the programming community in recent years. Many corporations such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are developing Open APIs for their existing services, and most of them are free of charge. As these free APIs facilitate collaboration between different software platforms, many programmers treat them as alternatives to open source. Yet, some programmers have found this collaboration risky to their independence, and they have started to think about the true meaning of the openness of API. More importantly, the definition of Open APIs is rendered ambiguous through the discursive practices that define ‘openness’ in contemporary digital culture. Drawing on the political economy of programming and software, this study begins with the historical discussion of openness and its relationship with the power of code in programming. It points out the openness in program...
30 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2021 | 1 |
| 2020 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2016 | 1 |