Fun and software : exploring pleasure, paradox, and pain in computing /: exploring pleasure, paradox, and pain in computing. (2014 copyright 2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Olga Goriunova.
• Editors: Goriunova, Olga, 1977-
• Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction – Olga Goriunova, University of Warwick, UK Technology, Logistics and Logic: Rethinking the Problem of Fun in Software - Andrew Goffey, University of Nottingham, UK Bend Sinister: Monstrosity and Normative Effect in Computational Practice - Simon Yuill, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Always One Bit More, Computing and the Experience of Ambiguity - Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Do Algorithms Have Fun? On Completion, Indeterminacy and Autonomy in Computation - Luciana Parisi and M. Beatrice Fazi, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK useR!: Aggression, Alterity and Unbound Affects in Statistical Programming - Adrian Mackenzie, Lancaster University, UK Do (not) Repeat Yourself - Michael Murtaugh, Piet Zwart Institute, The Netherlands Not Just For Fun - Geoff Cox, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Alex McLean, University of Leeds, UK Fun is a Battlefield: Software between Enjoyment and Obsession - Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Andrew Lison, Brown University, USA Monopoly and The Logic of Sensation in Spacewar! - Christian Ulrik Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark Human-Computer Interaction, a Sci-Fi discipline? - Brigitte Kaltenbacher, Goldsmiths College, UK A Fun Aesthetic and Art – Annet Dekker, Piet Zwart Institute, The Netherlands Material Imagination: on the Avant-Gardes, Time and Computation - Olga Goriunova, University of Warwick, UK Notes on Contributors.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: 004.019; Computer software -- Human factors
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781623567569; 1623567564
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