Executable Texts: Programs as Communications Devices and Their Use in Shaping High-tech Culture
This thesis takes a fresh look at software, treating it as a document, manuscript, corpus, or text to be consumed among communities of programmers and uncovering the social roles of these texts within two specific sub-communities and comparing them. In the paper, the social roles of the texts are p...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31388 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03012007-160106/ |