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  • Abstractions and Embodiments

    New Histories of Computing and Society

    Edited by Janet Abbate, Stephanie Dick ...
    Series series Studies in Computing and Culture
    Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of "humanness." They can serve both liberation and control because some people's ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Recoding Gender

    Women's Changing Participation in Computing

    by Janet Abbate ...
    Series series History of Computing
    The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek” seems to be everywhere in popular culture. Few people know that women were a significant presence in the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Abstractions and Embodiments

    New Histories of Computing and Society

    Edited by Janet Abbate, Stephanie Dick ...
    Series series Studies in Computing and Culture
    Cutting-edge historians explore ideas, communities, and technologies around modern computing to explore how computers mediate social relations.Computers have been framed both as a mirror for the human mind and as an irreducible other that humanness is defined against, depending on different historical definitions of "humanness." They can serve both liberation and control because some people's ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Inventing the Internet

    by Janet Abbate ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use.Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In ... Read more

    $25.99 USD