There is no Software, there are just Services

Kaldrack, Irina

There is no Software, there are just Services - meson press 2015 - 1 electronic resource (116 p.)

Open Access

Is software dead? Services like Google, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Social Media apps are all-pervasive in our digital media landscape. This marks the (re)emergence of the service paradigm that challenges traditional business and license models as well as modes of media creation and use. The short essays in this edited collection discuss how services shift the notion of software, the cultural technique of programming, conditions of labor as well as the ecology and politics of data and how they influence dispositifs of knowledge.


Creative Commons


English

008

10.14619/008 doi


Film, TV & radio

Software Services Google Dropbox Adobe Social Media Business Models Licensing Programming Labor Data Knowledge, Politics