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There is no Software, there are just Services
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Abstract Is software dead? Services like Google, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Social Media apps are all-pervasive in our digital media landscape. This marks the (re)emergence of the service paradigm that challenges traditional business and license models as well as modes of media creation and use. The s... view more
Is software dead? Services like Google, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Social Media apps are all-pervasive in our digital media landscape. This marks the (re)emergence of the service paradigm that challenges traditional business and license models as well as modes of media creation and use. The short essays in this edited collection discuss how services shift the notion of software, the cultural technique of programming, conditions of labor as well as the ecology and politics of data and how they influence dispositifs of knowledge.... view less
Keywords
software; Internet; search engine; social media; social network; data storage; digitalization; programming; cultural technique; service; business concept; knowledge production
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Google; Dropbox; Adobe; licensing
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Publisher
meson press
City
Lüneburg
Page/Pages
114 p.
Series
Digital Cultures Series
ISBN
978-3-95796-056-6
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed