Command and Ctrl: How Digital Became Us

Looking at the politics of software, this paper proposes that computation was never free from cultural bias. Early computation embedded military, workplace, and domestic values into its structures, and as the field professionalized itself during the late 20th century, it excluded input from diverse social groups. Software eventually became a mechanism that, under the guise of user-friendliness, obfuscates more than it reveals.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.99

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0