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James J. Brown Jr. - Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (Digital Humanities) - 9780472072736 - V9780472072736
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Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (Digital Humanities)

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Description for Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (Digital Humanities) Hardcover. Explores the rhetorical potential and problems of a new era of hosts and guests Series: Digital Humanities. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; HPQ; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.

Living in a networked world means never really getting to decide in any thoroughgoing way who or what enters your “space” (your laptop, your iPhone, your thermostat . . . your home). With this as a basic frame-of-reference, James J. Brown’s Ethical Programs examines and explores the rhetorical potential and problems of a hospitality ethos suited to a new era of hosts and guests. Brown reads a range of computational strategies and actors, from the general principles underwriting the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which determines how packets of information can travel through the internet, to the Obama election campaign’s use ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
U OF M DIGT CULT BOOKS
Condition
New
Series
Digital Humanities
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472072736
SKU
V9780472072736
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99-15

About James J. Brown Jr.
James J. Brown, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Digital Studies Center at Rutgers University–Camden. His teaching and research focus on rhetoric, writing, new media, and software studies.

Reviews for Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (Digital Humanities)
“Jim Brown’s work is a critical contribution to the growing body of scholarship studying software as a cultural form. Ethical Programs exposes the way computer programs—typically understood as strictly utilitarian tools—in fact embody, structure, and project a sense of ethics in networked environments.” —Mark Sample, Davidson College “James J. Brown Jr. is without question one of the most sophisticated ... Read more

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