Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 217 pages)
ISBN:
0472121235
,
0472900080
,
0472072730
,
047205273X
,
9780472072736
,
9780472900084
,
9780472052738
,
9780472121236
Series Statement:
Digital humanities
Content:
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 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
Content:
""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""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780472072736
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0472072730
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brown, James J., Jr Ethical programs
Language:
English
