Warren Sack at ARP Tuesday 2/3 11:00AM
UC Santa Cruz-based software designer and theorist Warren Sack will present a talk titled "Software Studies" tomorrow morning at 11:00 at the Annenberg Research Park (Kerckhoff Hall) colloquium series: "Since software design is a process of writing, the “computer revolution” can be understood as the rewriting of the world. One can identify a minor literature, within computer science, that has been premised on an understanding of software designers as writers, as essayists, as those who articulate ideas in code to communicate with other people. In other words, within this minor literature, computers are understood not just as tools but also as media that connect and separate people. Software studies is an emerging area in which code is examined as a digital medium. In this presentation I want to introduce software studies, examine its history in computer science, and compare it to analogous work in science studies, media studies, and cultural studies."