There is No Software, There are Just Services
Irina Kaldrack
Computers & Technology
There is No Software, There are Just Services
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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.

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English
ISBN
978-3-95796-055-9
Contents
There is no Software, there are just Services: Introduction
“The Tail on the Hardware Dog”: Historical Articulations of Computing Machinery, Software, and Services
The Durability of Software
From Shrink Wrap to Services: The Universal Machine and Universal Exchange
Service Orientations: Data, Institutions, Labor
The Cloud, the Store, and Millions of Apps
Denials of Service
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