An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in
everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight
paths. After little more than half a century since its initial
development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into
the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that
wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in
for a landing, software is shaping our world: it creates new ways
of undertaking tasks, speeds up and automates existing practices,
transforms social and economic relations, and offers new forms of
cultural activity, personal empowerment, and modes of play. In
Code/Space, Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge examine software from a
spatial perspective, analyzing the dyadic relationship of software
and space. The production of space, they argue, is increasingly
dependent on code, and code is written to produce space. Examples
of code/space include airport check-in areas, networked offices,
and cafes that are transformed into workspaces by laptops and
wireless access. Kitchin and Dodge argue that software, through its
ability to do work in the world, transduces space. Then Kitchin and
Dodge develop a set of conceptual tools for identifying and
understanding the interrelationship of software, space, and
everyday life, and illustrate their arguments with rich empirical
material. And, finally, they issue a manifesto, calling for
critical scholarship into the production and workings of code
rather than simply the technologies it enables-a new kind of social
science focused on explaining the social, economic, and spatial
contours of software.
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