Code/Space Software and Everyday Life

• Main Author: Kitchin, Rob (auth)
• Other Authors: Dodge, Martin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2011
• Series: Software Studies
• Subjects: Software Engineering; Information visualization; Computer programming / software engineering; Human-computer interaction
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths. After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From...