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Software studies is an interdisciplinary book category that examines software not merely as code or tools but as cultural, social, political and economic artifacts that shape everyday life. It brings together technical explanation and critical inquiry—histories of programming and platforms, analyses of algorithms and interfaces, studies of open-source communities and proprietary ecosystems, and explorations of regulation, labor, and ethics—to show how software mediates power, knowledge and value. Methodologies range from code reading and archival history to ethnography and media theory, producing works that are scholarly yet accessible to informed general readers, designers, and technologists. Unlike programming manuals, software studies books prioritize interpretation and context over how-to instruction, aiming to reveal the assumptions, effects and possibilities embedded in software systems.

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