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Author:   Janet Abbate ,  Stephanie Dick
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781421444376

ISBN 10:   1421444372
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   25 October 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction. Thinking with Computers Part I. Abstractions Chapter 1. Waiting for Midnight: Risk Perception and the Millennium Bug Chapter 2. Centrists against the Center: The Jeffersonian Politics of a Decentralized Internet Chapter 3. Beyond the Pale: The Blackbird Web Browser's Critical Reception Chapter 4. Scientology Online: Copyright Infringement and the Legal Construction of the Internet Chapter 5. Patenting Automation of Race and Ethnicity Classifications: Protecting Neutral Technology or Disparate Treatment by Proxy? Chapter 6. ""Difficult Things Are Difficult to Describe"": The Role of Formal Semantics in European Computer Science, 1960–1980 Chapter 7. What's in a Name? Origins, Transpositions, and Transformations of the Triptych Algorithm–Code–Program Chapter 8. The Lurking Problem Chapter 9. The Help Desk: Changing Images of Product Support in Personal Computing, 1975–1990 Chapter 10. Power to the Clones: Hardware and Software Bricolage on the Periphery Part II: Embodiments Chapter 11. Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture Chapter 12. Inventing the Black Computer Professional Chapter 13. The Baby and the Black Box: A History of Software, Sexism, and the Sound Barrier Chapter 14. Computing Nanyang: Information Technology in a Developing Singapore, 1965–1985 Chapter 15. Engineering the Lay Mind: Lev Landa's Algo-Heuristic Theory and Artificial Intelligence Chapter 16. The Measure of Meaning: Automatic Speech Recognition and the Human-Computer Imagination Chapter 17. Broken Mirrors: Surveillance in Oakland as Both Reflection and Refraction of California's Carceral State Chapter 18. Punk Culture and the Rise of the Hacker Ethic Chapter 19. The Computer as Prosthesis? Embodiment, Augmentation, and Disability Chapter 20. ""Have Any Remedies for Tired Eyes?"": Computer Pain as Computer History Afterword. Beyond Abstractions and Embodiments Contributors Index"

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Abstractions and Embodiments may offer histories of computing, but it is not solely of interest to historians and computer scientists. There is plenty within this book to be of interest to scholars across the fields of information science and technology....Abstractions and Embodiments is a welcome volume and a conversation starter. The diverse set of articles presented here serves to deepen and complicate the histories that we have heard before. —Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

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Janet Abbate (FALLS CHURCH, VA) is a professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Inventing the Internet and Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing. Stephanie Dick (VANCOUVER, BC) is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

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