Neuroimaging, Software, and Communication The Social Code of Source Code /

• Main Author: Bicudo, Edison (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Neurosciences.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Science and Technology Studies.

This book analyses the social contexts in which programmers design neuroimaging software used in brain studies. It shows that in the same way people engage in everyday communication, programmers are involved in a series of communicative processes to realize the negotiations and discussions generated...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part 1: Socializing code
• Chapter One: "Sharing code: social meditations in software development"
• Chapter Two: "Writing code: software development and communicative actions" Part 2: Codifying society
• Chapter Three: "Owning code: institutional aspects of software development"
• Chapter Four: "Using code: the social diffusion of programming tasks"
• Conclusion.