Hector Beltran

Code Work

Hacking across the US/Mexico Techno-Borderlands

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Produktbeschreibung

"éHctor Beltárn examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltárn 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 éMxico 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 éMxico to Silicon Valley.Beltárn chronicles the tension between the transformative promise of hacking--the idea that coding will reconfigure the boundaries of race, ethnicity, class, and gender--and the reality of a neoliberal capitalist economy divided and structured by the US/éMxico border."

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Produktdetails

• Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 164mm x 242mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780691245034
• ISBN-10: 0691245037
• Artikelnr.: 67792162

Autorenporträt

Héctor Beltrán is assistant professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.