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Command Lines: The Social Construction of Software

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Channel: Computer History Museum · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Session D2: The Social Construction of Software
Command Lines: Software, Power & Performance
March 18-19, 2017
Computer History Museum

“Trouble in Cyborg Paradise: Johns Hopkins’ First National Search for Applications of Personal Computing to Aid the Handicapped”
Nabeel A. Siddiqui
Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary

“Micro-serveurs and Micro-communities: Alternative Networks on the Margins of Minitel”
Julien P. Mailland
Assistant Professor, The Media School, Indiana University

“Excavating (Anti-)Piracy: Materiality of Intellectual Property Struggles in 1980s Commodore Software”
James A. Hodges
Ph.D. Student, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

“Homebrew Game Development: On Illegitimacy in Software Production”
Melaine Swalwell
Associate Professor, Screen and Media Department, Flinders University

Chaired by Jeffrey R. Yost
Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota

Command Lines was a conference of the Society for the History of Technology (http://www.historyoftechnology.org/)’s Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (http://www.sigcis.org/). It was sponsored and hosted by the Computer History Museum (http://www.computerhistory.org/)’s Center for Software History (http://www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory).

Lot number: X8133.2017
Catalog number: 102740153

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