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Examining the layers of meaning encoded in code and the rhetoric surrounding it, this book offers a much-needed perspective on the intersections among software, morality, and politics. In software development culture, evangelism typically denotes a rhetorical practice that aims to convert software developers, as well as non-technical lay users, from one platform to another (e.g., from the operating system Windows to Linux). This book argues that software evangelism, like its religious counterpart, must also be understood as constructing moral and political values that extend well beyond the boundaries of the development culture. Unlike previous studies that locate such values in the effects of code in-use or in certain types of code like free and open source (F/OSS) software, Maher argues that all code is meaningful beyond its technical, executable functions. As an example of political liberalism at work at the level of code, these evangelical rhetorics of software construct competing conceptions of what is good that fall within a shared belief in what is just. Maher illustrates how these beliefs in goodness and justice do not always execute in replicable ways, as the different ways of decoding software evangelisms in the contexts of Brazil and China reveal. Demonstrating how software evangelisms exert a transformative force on the world, one comparable in significance to code itself, this book highlights the importance of rhetoric in even the most seemingly a-rhetorical of technical endeavors and foregrounds the crucial need for rhetorical literacy in the digital age.
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Jennifer Helene Maher is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0415704243
- ISBN 13 9780415704243
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages216
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