The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age

By D. Berry. 2011

355 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Safety Research

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Paul Dourish
2. Ramón Alvarado
3. Taina Bucher
4. John F. Symons
5. Nathan Ensmenger
6. Yvonne Rogers

In Computational Theory and Mathematics

1. Paul Dourish
2. Ramón Alvarado
3. Taina Bucher
4. John F. Symons

In Safety Research

1. Hamid R. Ekbia
2. Paul Dourish
3. Ramón Alvarado
4. Taina Bucher
5. John F. Symons
6. Sophie Bishop
7. Joëlle Swart
8. Annika Wærn

Citations in the corpus

• Can we trust Big Data? Applying philosophy of science to software (2016, background): “In his book The Philosophy of Software , David Berry (2011) defines software studies as a research field that includes disciplines as broad as platform studies , media archaeology , and media theory , all of which focus on the development, use, and historicity of hardware, operating systems, and even ”
• Big data, bigger dilemmas: A critical review (2015, methodology): “…hand, drawing an historical parallel with “the domestication of human mind that took place with pen and paper,” argue that the shift doesn’t have to be dehumanizing: “Rather than a method of thinking with eyes and hand, we would have a method of thinking with eyes and screen” (Berry, 2011, p. 22).”
• 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): “…in the form of ‘‘source code,’’ the human-readable expressions of program behavior that are the primary focus of pro-grammers’ productive attentions, it has perhaps been particular by those working under the umbrella of ‘‘critical code studies’’ (see, e.g., Berry, 2011; Montford et al., 2012).”