{"product_id":"cutting-code-software-and-sociality-steve-jones-9780820478234","title":"Cutting Code: Software and Sociality","description":"Software has often been marginalized in accounts of digital cultures and network societies. Although software is everywhere, it is hard to say what it actually is. \u003ci\u003eCutting Code: Software and Sociality\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the first books to treat software seriously as a full-blown cultural process and as a subtly powerful material in contemporary communication. From deCSS to Java, from Linux to Extreme Programming, this book analyses software artworks, operating systems, commercial products, infrastructures, and programming practices. It explores social forms, identities, materialities, and power relations associated with software, and it asks how software provokes the re-thinking of production, consumption and distribution as entwined cultural processes. \u003ci\u003eCutting Code\u003c\/i\u003e argues that analysis of code as a mosaic of algorithms, protocols, infrastructures, and programming conventions offers valuable insights into how contemporary social formations invent new kinds of personhood and new ways of acting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve Jones, Adrian MacKenzie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820478237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820478234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScitech Book News\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2006 pg. 14","brand":"Steve Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057350668543,"sku":"9780820478234","price":45.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_130ffa40-a4fe-4dcd-8e35-d8774a22f9cd.jpg?v=1685046472","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cutting-code-software-and-sociality-steve-jones-9780820478234","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}