Middle-out from Bottom-up: Engineering and Close Reading Code in HBO's Silicon Valley.
This essay examines the production and reception of a selection of computer source code briefly visible onscreen in "Founder Friendly," an episode of the HBO satire series Silicon Valley. This text, made legible by the affordances of streaming high definition television, invited fans to engage in in...
| Publicado en: | Configurations Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 435 - 465 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Fall2022
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