Title & Author:

There is no software, there are just services / edited by Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker.

Publication:

[Lüneburg] : Meson Press, 2015.

Description:

1 online resource (114 pages) : illustrations

Series:

Digital cultures series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
There is no software, there are just services: introduction / Irina Kaldrack and Martina Leeker -- "The tail on the hardware dog" : historical articulations of computing machinery, software, and services / Christoph Neubert -- The durability of software / Seth Erickson and Christopher M. Kelty -- From shrink wrap to services : the universal machine and universal exchange / Andrew Lison -- Service orientations : data, institutions, labor / Liam Magee and Ned Rossiter -- The cloud, the store, and millions of apps / Anders Fagerjord -- Denials of service / Jussi Parikka.

Summary:

Is software dead? Services like Google, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Social Media apps are all-pervasive in our digital media landscape. This marks the (re)emergence of the service paradigm that challenges traditional business and license models as well as modes of media creation and use. The short essays in this edited collection discuss how services shift the notion of software, the cultural technique of programming, conditions of labor as well as the ecology and politics of data and how they influence dispositifs of knowledge.

Resources:
Meson Press
Kortext

ISBN:

9783957960566 (PDF)
3957960568 (PDF)
9783957960573 (EPUB)
3957960576 (EPUB)
395796055X
9783957960559
(print)

Subject:

Web services.
Computer software.
Cloud computing.
Computer programs.
Services Web.
Logiciels.
Infonuagique.
software.

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Collections

Added entries:

Kaldrack, Irina, 1970- editor.
Leeker, Martina, editor.
Digital cultures series.