
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Encoding an Analytic
Gerardo Con Díaz and Jeffrey R. Yost
Part I. How does code become both a subject and a means of governance?
1. Delivering Solidarity: Platform
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Encoding an Analytic
Gerardo Con Díaz and Jeffrey R. Yost
Part I. How does code become both a subject and a means of governance?
1. Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China's Platform Economy
Ya-Wen Lei
2. Consent Code and Default Dramas
Meg Leta Jones
3. A Mirror, Not a Glass Door: Legal Code and Software Code in Practice
Justin Petelka, Megan Finn, Janaki Srinivasan, Elisa Oreglia, and A. P. Janani
4. Algorithmic Collusion, Modern Monopolies, and Their Market Power
Hamid R. Ekbia
5. Reopening the Politics of Openness in the Age of Cloud Computing: Reflections on Recent FOSS Relicensing
Shun-Ling Chen
6. The Great E-book Conspiracy
Gerardo Con Díaz
Part II. How does code become infused with social values, assumptions, and biases?
7. The Standard Head
Stephanie Dick
8. Spanning Space and Time Barriers: Computerized Conferencing, Disability, and Citizenship
Elizabeth Petrick
9. Pushing Fintech: Testing Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion, and "Rural Women" in Peru
Mariel García Llorens
10. Corporate Culture Made Material: Ephemera and In/equity at Control Data Corporation, 1957–1975
Elizabeth Semler
11. Reassessing the Iconic and Unbundling the Ironic: IBM System Engineering, Gender, and Antitrust
Jeffrey R. Yost
12. Y2K and the Politics of Labor
Dylan Mulvin
Part III. What does it mean to grapple with code?
13. From Programming to Platform Expertise: Technical Reformers and the Reinvention of Institutions
Shreeharsh Kelkar
14. Computers as Colonizers: British Computing Companies and Indian Technological Resistance, 1955–1975
Mar Hicks
15. The Mask of Humanity: Manipulation and Psychopathy at the Human-Computer Interface
Jennifer Alexander
16. Cryptography Goes Public: Contesting the Meaning of a New Field in the 1970s United States
Gili Vidan
17. Nodes and Codes: Iterating with the State in México
Héctor Beltrán
Epilogue: Artificial Intelligence—Braiding Irony, Paradox, and Possibility
Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz
Contributors
Index