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Your Computer Is On Fire / edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London England: The MIT Press, [2021]Description: vi, 409 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262539739
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4834 MUL 23
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.C66 Y67 2021
Contents:
Introductions Your Computer is on Fire Thomas S. Mullaney 3; When Did the Fire Start? Mar Hicks 11; Part I Nothing is Virtual; 1 The Cloud is a Factory Nathan Ensmenger 29; 2 Your AI is a Human Sarah T. Roberts 51; 3 A Network is Not a Network Benjamin Peters 71; 4 The Internet Will Be Decolonized Kavita Philip 91; 5 Capture is Pleasure Mitali Thakor 117; Part II This is an Emergency; 6 Sexism is a Feature, Not a Bug Mar Hicks 135; 7 Gender is a Corporate Tool Corinna Schlombs 159; 8 Siri Disciplines Halcyon M. Lawrence 179; 9 Your Robot Isn't Neutral Safiya Umoja Noble 199; 10 Broken is Word Andrea Stanton 213; 11 You Can't Make Games About Much Noah Wardrip-Fruin 231; Part III Where Will the Fire Spread?; 12 Coding is Not Empowerment Janet Abbate 253; 13 Source Code Isn't Ben Allen 273; 14 Skills Will Not Set You Free Sreela Sarkar 297; 15 Platforms are Infrastructures on Fire Paul N. Edwards 313; 16 Typing is Dead Thomas S. Mullaney 337; Afterwords; How to Stop Worrying About Clean Signals and Start Loving the Noise Kavita Philip 363; How Do We Live Now? In The Aftermath of Ourselves Benjamin Peters 377; Contributors 385; Index 387
Summary: "Collection of arguments about STEM fields' blind spots in computing and a deliberately provocative underscoring of humanists' appeals for a "wake up call" in computing culture"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductions
Your Computer is on Fire Thomas S. Mullaney 3;
When Did the Fire Start? Mar Hicks 11;
Part I Nothing is Virtual;
1 The Cloud is a Factory Nathan Ensmenger 29;
2 Your AI is a Human Sarah T. Roberts 51;
3 A Network is Not a Network Benjamin Peters 71;
4 The Internet Will Be Decolonized Kavita Philip 91;
5 Capture is Pleasure Mitali Thakor 117;
Part II This is an Emergency;
6 Sexism is a Feature, Not a Bug Mar Hicks 135;
7 Gender is a Corporate Tool Corinna Schlombs 159;
8 Siri Disciplines Halcyon M. Lawrence 179;
9 Your Robot Isn't Neutral Safiya Umoja Noble 199;
10 Broken is Word Andrea Stanton 213;
11 You Can't Make Games About Much Noah Wardrip-Fruin 231;
Part III Where Will the Fire Spread?;
12 Coding is Not Empowerment Janet Abbate 253;
13 Source Code Isn't Ben Allen 273;
14 Skills Will Not Set You Free Sreela Sarkar 297;
15 Platforms are Infrastructures on Fire Paul N. Edwards 313;
16 Typing is Dead Thomas S. Mullaney 337;
Afterwords;
How to Stop Worrying About Clean Signals and Start Loving the Noise Kavita Philip 363;
How Do We Live Now? In The Aftermath of Ourselves Benjamin Peters 377;
Contributors 385;
Index 387

"Collection of arguments about STEM fields' blind spots in computing and a deliberately provocative underscoring of humanists' appeals for a "wake up call" in computing culture"-- Provided by publisher.