Aesthetics, performativity and resistance in the narratives of a computer programming community.

This article reports on an empirical study of a computer programmer community, focusing on online exchanges in which participants discuss the aesthetics of coding. Naturalistic data were collected during a 12-month period of non-participant observation of the software community in question. The auth...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Human Relations Vol. 59; no. 6; pp. 753 - 783
Main Authors: Case P, Piñeiro E
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Jun2006
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