Software Studies: a lexicon

By Matthew Fuller. 2008

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction

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Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook (2012, background): “The relatively new field of software studies (Berry, 2011; Chun, 2011; Fuller, 2008; Kitchin and Dodge, 2011 ) usefully directs attention to the ways in which software functions as a sociotechnical actor capable of influencing users’ practices and experiences on the Web.”
Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context (2016, background): “…within existing academic domains; in other cases, it arises as part and parcel of a broader interest in harnessing the tools of cultural analysis to understand contemporary digital culture and its platforms (e.g. Cox, 2012; Fuller, 2008; Mackenzie, 2006; Manovich, 2001; Montford and Bogost, 2009).”
A New Algorithmic Identity (2011, background): “When a user changes her profile on Facebook to state her ‘sex’, there’s both a delimiting action (of the set drop-down menu choices available to describe one’s ‘sex’ of male or female) as well as a cultural discourse (what does being female online mean?) through which code speaks (Fuller, 2008).”
Algorithmic culture (2015, background): “Several of these terms appear in Fuller (2008), although the project does not adhere closely to a Williamsonian keywords approach. The Williams-inspired New Keywords (Bennett et al., 2005) contains only a handful of them. Ben Peters’ (ed.) forthcoming Digital Keywords project is the most compelling ”
Bearing Account-able Witness to the Ethical Algorithmic System (2016, background): “Software studies (see for example, Fuller, 2008; Mackenzie, 2006) is emerging as a field for studying codes, and coded space has become a focus for algorithmic investigation (see Thrift and French, 2002; Kitchin and Dodge, 2011) 13.”
Scrutinizing an algorithmic technique: the Bayes classifier as interested reading of reality (2017, result): “There remains a stark contrast, however, between the increasingly accepted diagnosis that ‘ [s]oftware structures and makes possible much of the contemporary world ’ (Fuller, 2008, p. 1) and the attention given to speci ﬁ c instances and precise methods.”