Code work

• Verfasst von: Beltrán, Héctor [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Code work
• Titelzusatz: hacking across the US/México techno-borderlands
• Mitwirkende: Tiedemann, Gary [ErzählerIn]
• Verf.angabe: Héctor Beltrán
• Ausgabe: [First edition].
• Verlagsort: [New York]
• Verlag: Ascent Audio
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 online resource (1 sound file (7 hr., 14 min.))
• Fussnoten: Online resource; title from title details screen (O’Reilly, viewed September 24, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-1-6637-3683-3
• ISBN: 1-6637-3683-9
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Piratage informatique ; Région frontalière mexicano-américaine
• Sach-SW: Audiobooks
• Sach-SW: Livres audio
• K10plus-PPN: 1903889405
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  Universitätsbibliothek
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• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
• Bibliothek/Idn: UW / m4585332650
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Abstract

In Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions—at home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics. Merging ethnographic analysis with systems thinking, he draws on his eight years of research in México and the United States—during which he participated in and observed hackathons, hacker schools, and tech entrepreneurship conferences—to unpack the conundrums faced by workers in a tech economy that stretches from villages in rural México to Silicon Valley. Beltrán's highly original, wide-ranging analysis uniquely connects technology studies, the anthropology of capitalism, and Latinx and Latin American studies.