Fun and Software
Subtitle: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York & London
Language: eng
Format: Ebook PDF
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781623568870
Subjects: Computer software
Notes: First
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgement; title: Introduction; title: Technology Logistics and Logic : Rethinking the problem of Fun in Software; title: Bend Sinister : Monstrosity and Normative Effect in Computational Practice; title: Always One Bit More : Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity; title: Do Algorithms Have Fun ? On Completion Indeterminacy and Autonomy in Computation; title: use R! : Aggression, Alterity and Unbound Affects in Statistical Programming; title: Do Not Repeat Yourself; title: Not Just for Fun; title: Fun is a Battlefield : Software between Enjoyment and Obsession; title: Monopoly and the Logic of Sensation in Spacewar!; title: Human- Computer Interaction a Sci-Fi discipline?; title: A Fun Aesthetic and Art; title: Material imagination; on the Avant-Gardes; title: Notes on Contributors