Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough

by Paula Bialski

Book Overview

Why software isn't perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech company

Contrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply "good enough." In Middle Tech, Paula Bialski offers an ethnographic study of software developers at a non-flashy, non-start-up corporate tech company. Their stories reveal why software isn't perfect and how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691257167
• ISBN13: 9780691257167
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"