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1 online resource |
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Digital humanities |
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Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: The Swarm -- 1 Web Hosting: Hospitality and Ethical Programs -- Part 1 Hospitable Networks -- 2 Processing Power: Procedural Rhetoric and Protocol -- 3 Possibility Spaces: Exploits and Persuasion -- Part 2 Hospitable Databases -- 4 Database Integrity: Ethos and the Archive -- 5 Rhetorical Devices: Database, Narrative, and Machinic Thinking -- Conclusion: About, With, In?Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Author(s)Brown, JamesLanguageEnglishShow full item recordLiving 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 of the power of protocols to reach voters, harvest their data, incentivize and, ultimately, shape their participation in the campaign. In demonstrating the kind of rhetorical spaces networked software establishes and the access it permits, prevents, and molds, Brown makes a significant contribution to the emergent discourse of software studies as a major component of efforts in broad fields including media studies, rhetorical studies, and cultural studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Computer software -- Social aspects
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Databases -- Social aspects
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Freedom of information.
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Access to Information
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Freedom of information
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Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020707443 |
| ISBN |
9780472121236 |
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0472121235 |
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9780472900084 |
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0472900080 |
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