The Greatest Books of All Time on Computing Culture
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"Computing culture" is a cross-disciplinary book category that explores how computing technologies shape—and are shaped by—everyday life, institutions, values and creative practices. It encompasses histories and biographies of people and institutions in computing; ethnographies and memoirs from hackers, developers, and makers; critical and theoretical examinations of software, algorithms, AI, surveillance, privacy and labor; studies of online communities, gaming and fandom; and work on design, aesthetics and the politics of infrastructure and policy. Books in this category blend technical explanation with social analysis, storytelling and philosophy, drawing on journalism, scholarship and personal narrative to show how code, devices and platforms carry cultural meanings, enforce power, enable resistance and reconfigure human relationships. The audience spans general readers, technologists, scholars and policymakers seeking to understand the human contexts and consequences of computing.
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