Feminist in a software lab : difference + design / Tara McPherson.
By: McPherson, Tara [author.].
Series: MetaLABprojects: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, ©2018Description: 276 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674728943.Subject(s): Digital humanities | Computer software -- Development | Scholarly electronic publishing | Software engineering -- Social aspects | Computers and womenGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Preface. Opening Vectors -- How to read this book -- List of fellow travelers -- 1. Designing for difference -- Into the fray -- Modularity at midcentury: thinking race + UNIX -- Situating UNIX -- Modularity in the social field -- Moving beyond our boxes + mapping materialisms -- WINDOW 1: introducing Vectors -- 2. Assembling scholarship: from Vectors to Scalar -- On process -- WINDOW 2: the look + feel of Vectors -- WINDOW 3: making stolen time -- Reimaging content and form -- WINDOW 4: various vectors -- Scaling Vectors -- WINDOW 5: the Scalar feature set + showcase -- Outro. Scholarship in the wild.
Tara McPherson asks what might it mean to design--from conception--digital tools and applications that emerge from contextual concerns of cultural theory and from a feminist concern for difference. This question leads to the Vectors lab, which for a dozen years has experimented with digital scholarship at the intersection of theory and praxis.--