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Author:   Mario Biagioli ,  Vincent Antonin Lépinay
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9781478001843

ISBN 10:   1478001844
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"List of Abbreviations  vii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: Russian Economies of Code / Mario Biagioli and Vincent Lépinay  1 I. Coding Collectives 1. Before the Collapse: Programming Cultures in the Soviet Union / Ksenia Tatarchenko  39 2. From Lurker to Ninja: Creating an IT Community at Yandex / Marina Fedorova  59 3. For Code and Country: Civic Hackers in Contemporary Russia / Ksenia Ermoshina  87 II. Outward-Looking Enclaves 4. At the Periphery of the Empire: Recycling Japanese Cars into Vladivostok's IT Communuity / Alexandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva  113 5. Kazan Connected: ""IT-ing Up"" a Province / Alina Kontareva  145 6. Hackerspaces and Technoparks in Moscow / Aleksandra Simonova  167 7. Siberian Software Developers / Andrey Inkukaev  195 8. E-Estonia Reprogrammed: Nation Branding and Children Coding / Daria Savchenko  213 III. Interlude: Russian Maps 9. Post-Soviet Ecosystems of IT / Dmitrii Zhikharevich  231 IV. Bridges and Mismatches 10. Migrating Step by Step: Russian Computer Specialists in the UK / Irina Antoschyuk  271 11. Brain Drain and Boston's ""Upper-Middle Tech"" / Diana Kurkovsky West  297 12. Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel / Marina Fedorova  319 13. Russian Programmers in Finland: Self-Presentation in Migration Narratives / Lyubava Shatokhina  347 Contributors  365 Index  369"

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The most striking achievement of this in so many ways outstanding book rests in its ethnographic accounts of the RCS [Russian Computer Scientists] as a new type of power-knowledge intellectual.... The book is easy on technical language and should be accessible to a wide readership beyond Russian studies. -- Dusan I. Bjelic * Slavic Review *

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Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law, Science and Technology Studies, and History at the University of California, Davis. Vincent Lépinay is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Medialab at Sciences Po (Paris).

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