Code/Space
Software and Everyday Life
$70.86
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2014
Summary
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.
After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in for a landing, software is shaping our world: it creates new ways of undertaking tasks, spe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262525916 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262525917 |
| Author: | Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Software Studies |
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Critics Review
This is an important book about a growing trend that has received relatively little scholarly attention within planning, geography and regional studies…Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge are leading scholars on cyberspace, information and code and they masterfully use this expertise to present an accessible and extremely lucid argument as to why software matters.
-Matthew Zook, Regional Studies This is a critical work for anyone interested in the social relations of software and computers.
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About The Author
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis at the National University of Maynooth, Ireland. Martin Dodge is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester’s School of Environment and Development.
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