TY - CHAP

T1 - There is no Software, there are just Services: Introduction

AU - Kaldrack, Irina

AU - Leeker, Martina

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Is software dead? Services like Google, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Social Media apps are all-pervasive in our digital media landscape. This marks the (re)emergence of the service paradigm that challenges traditional business and license models as well as modes of media creation and use. The short essays in this edited collection discuss how services shift the notion of software, the cultural technique of programming, conditions of labor as well as the ecology and politics of data and how they influence dispositifs of knowledge.

AB - Is software dead? Services like Google, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Social Media apps are all-pervasive in our digital media landscape. This marks the (re)emergence of the service paradigm that challenges traditional business and license models as well as modes of media creation and use. The short essays in this edited collection discuss how services shift the notion of software, the cultural technique of programming, conditions of labor as well as the ecology and politics of data and how they influence dispositifs of knowledge.

KW - Digital media

U2 - 10.14619/008

DO - 10.14619/008

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-3-95796-055-9

T3 - Digital Cultures

SP - 9

EP - 19

BT - There is no Software, there are just Services

A2 - Kaldrack, Irina

A2 - Leeker, Martina

PB - meson press

CY - Lüneburg

ER -