Categorii: Necatalogate, Neclasificate
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2024
Editura: Princeton University Press
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 224
Colectie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
ISBN: 9780691257167
Dimensiuni: l: 15cm | H: 23cm | 1.6cm | 368g
Why software isn't perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech company
Contrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply "good enough."
In Middle Tech, Paula Bialski offers an ethnographic study of software developers at a non-flashy, non-start-up corporate tech company.
Their stories reveal why software isn't perfect and how developers communicate, care, and compromise to make software work-or at least work until the next update.
Exploring the culture of good enoughness at a technology firm she calls "MiddleTech," Bialski shows how doing good-enough work is a collectively negotiated resistance to the organizational ideology found in corporate software settings.