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Author Brown, James J., Jr., author.

Title Ethical programs : hospitality and the rhetorics of software / James J. Brown Jr.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
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Series Digital humanities
Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index.
Note Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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
Language English.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Computer software -- Social aspects.
Databases -- Social aspects.
Freedom of information.
Access to Information
Internet -- Aspect moral.
Logiciels -- Aspect social.
Liberté d'information.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Freedom of information
Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects
Other Form: Print version: Ethical programs. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015] 9780472072736 (DLC) 2015022307
ISBN 9780472121236 (ebook)
0472121235 (ebook)
9780472900084 (ebook)
0472900080 (ebook)
9780472052738 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
047205273X (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780472072736 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
0472072730 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
Standard No. 10.3998/dh.13474172.0001.001
AU@ 000056297715
AU@ 000058392955
AU@ 000066532984
GBVCP 865794286
NZ1 16242635

 
    
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