Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software

Living in a networked world means never really getting to decide in any thoroughgoing way who or what enters your "space" (your laptop, your iPhone, your thermostat . . . your home). With this as a basic frame-of-reference, James J. Brown's Ethical Programs examines and explores the r...

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Main Author: Brown, James (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2015
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