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Neuroimaging, Software, and Communication

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The Social Code of Source Code

ISBN: 9811370621
ISBN 13: 9789811370625
Autor: Bicudo, Edison
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxiii, 426 S., 35 s/w Illustr., 24 farbige Illustr., 426 p. 59 illus., 24 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.08.2020
Auflage: 1/2020
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: Kartoniert

This book analyses the social contexts in which programmers design neuroimaging software used in brain studies. It shows that in the same way people engage in everyday communication, programmers are involved in a series of communicative processes to realize the negotiations and discussions generated by software development. In this way, highly technical activities such as computer code writing are also underpinned by values, preferences, and power relations. At the same time, the book sheds new light on scientists‘ increasing dependence on software. On the one hand, many scientific tasks can no longer be performed without the help of computational technologies. On the other hand, most scientists have only superficial computing knowledge. As a result, inequalities emerge whereby some scientists take the most strategic methodological decisions whereas other scientists can only rely on the technical help provided by user-friendly computer applications.

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Autorenporträt

Edison Bicudo is a sociologist and geographer. For over twenty years, he has studied the social and geographical implications of biomedical technologies. In 2012 he completed his PhD in International Politics at King's College London. In 2014 he published his first book, Pharmaceutical Research, Democracy and Conspiracy.

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