Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society (Paperback)

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Thinking with Computers
Part I. Abstractions
Chapter 1. Waiting for Midnight: Risk Perception and the Millennium Bug
Chapter 2. Centrists against the Center: The Jeffersonian Politics of a Decentralized Internet
Chapter 3. Beyond the Pale: The Blackbird Web Browser's Critical Reception
Chapter 4. Scientology Online: Copyright Infringement and the Legal Construction of the Internet
Chapter 5. Patenting Automation of Race and Ethnicity Classifications: Protecting Neutral Technology or Disparate Treatment by Proxy?
Chapter 6. "Difficult Things Are Difficult to Describe": The Role of Formal Semantics in European Computer Science, 1960?1980
Chapter 7. What's in a Name? Origins, Transpositions, and Transformations of the Triptych Algorithm?Code?Program
Chapter 8. The Lurking Problem
Chapter 9. The Help Desk: Changing Images of Product Support in Personal Computing, 1975?1990
Chapter 10. Power to the Clones: Hardware and Software Bricolage on the Periphery
Part II: Embodiments
Chapter 11. Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture
Chapter 12. Inventing the Black Computer Professional
Chapter 13. The Baby and the Black Box: A History of Software, Sexism, and the Sound Barrier
Chapter 14. Computing Nanyang: Information Technology in a Developing Singapore, 1965?1985
Chapter 15. Engineering the Lay Mind: Lev Landa's Algo-Heuristic Theory and Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 16. The Measure of Meaning: Automatic Speech Recognition and the Human-Computer Imagination
Chapter 17. Broken Mirrors: Surveillance in Oakland as Both Reflection and Refraction of California's Carceral State
Chapter 18. Punk Culture and the Rise of the Hacker Ethic
Chapter 19. The Computer as Prosthesis? Embodiment, Augmentation, and Disability
Chapter 20. "Have Any Remedies for Tired Eyes?": Computer Pain as Computer History
Afterword. Beyond Abstractions and Embodiments
Contributors
Index