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Middle Tech : Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough
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Middle Tech : Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough / Paula Bialski.
ISBN
9780691257174
9780691257167
9780691257150
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2024]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©[2024]
Physical Description
1 online resource: illustrations.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Other formats
Print version: Bialski, Paula Middle Tech Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 26, 2024
Series
Princeton studies in culture and technology
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index.
Contents
ch.1 Welcome to MiddleTech
ch. 2 Software's sociality
ch.3 Where stuff goes wrong
ch. 4 Managing good enoughness
ch.5 Slowdown.
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