Bicudo Neuroimaging, Software, and Communication

The Social Code of Source Code
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-981-13-7060-1
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 426 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book analyses the social contexts in which programmers design neuroimaging software used in brain studies. It shows that in the same way people engage in everyday communication, programmers are involved in a series of communicative processes to realize the negotiations and discussions generated by software development. In this way, highly technical activities such as computer code writing are also underpinned by values, preferences, and power relations. At the same time, the book sheds new light on scientists’ increasing dependence on software. On the one hand, many scientific tasks can no longer be performed without the help of computational technologies. On the other hand, most scientists have only superficial computing knowledge. As a result, inequalities emerge whereby some scientists take the most strategic methodological decisions whereas other scientists can only rely on the technical help provided by user-friendly computer applications.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bicudo, Edison

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Part 1: Socializing code.- Chapter One: “Sharing code: social meditations in software development”.- Chapter Two: “Writing code: software development and communicative actions” Part 2: Codifying society.- Chapter Three: “Owning code: institutional aspects of software development”.- Chapter Four: “Using code: the social diffusion of programming tasks”.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Edison Bicudo is a sociologist and geographer. For over twenty years, he has studied the social and geographical implications of biomedical technologies. In 2012 he completed his PhD in International Politics at King’s College London. In 2014 he published his first book, Pharmaceutical Research, Democracy and Conspiracy .