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From Russia with Code
Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
The contributors to From Russia with Code examine Russian computer scientists, programmers, and hackers in and outside of Russia within the context of new international labor markets and the economic, technological, and political changes in post-Soviet Russia.
Author / Editor information
Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law, Science and Technology Studies, and History at the University of California, Davis.
Vincent Lépinay is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Medialab at Sciences Po (Paris).
Vincent Lépinay is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Medialab at Sciences Po (Paris).
Reviews
“The most striking achievement of this in so many ways outstanding book rests in its ethnographic accounts of the RCS [Russian Computer Scientists] as a new type of power-knowledge intellectual…. The book is easy on technical language and should be accessible to a wide readership beyond Russian studies.”
-- Dušan I. Bjelic Slavic Review
“From Russia with Code...is both timely and unique.... Biagioli and Lépinay’s volume demonstrates that IT professionals both in Russia and abroad have the potential to disrupt the Russian state’s current conception of sovereignty...and to redefine the relationship between the state, its citizens, and the international community.”
-- Alexandra V. Orlova Surveillance & Society
“This book is a valuable read for those with an interest in computer programming and high-tech cultures outside the United States, in post-Soviet ethnography, and in the elusive myth of the Russian programmer.”
-- Adam Kriesberg Information & Culture
“From Russia with Code offers a rich and insightful view into the Russian IT sector and brings welcome scholarly attention to a population that has been overrepresented in popular journalism, but less well attended to in scholarship.... This accessibly written, engaging, and insightful volume will be of interest to broad audiences.”
-- Julie Hemment Anthropos
“This is a superb collection of articles on post-Soviet IT by highly accomplished scholars.”
-- Barbara Walker Technology and Culture
“From Russia with Code appears as essential reading for those interested in STS, cultural history, transnational migrations, and the sociology, history, and anthropology of Russian-speaking information science and information technology. . . . I am confident that the complex, grounded realities of From Russia with Code take the first necessary step on a path toward understanding how Russian-speakers coded the world.”
-- Benjamin Peters Soviet and Post-Soviet Review
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Abbreviations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction RUSSIAN ECONOMIES OF CODES
1 - Part I CODING COLLECTIVES
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Chapter one BEFORE THE COLLAPSE Programming Cultures in the Soviet Union
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Chapter two FROM LURKER TO NINJA Creating an IT Community at Yandex
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Chapter three FOR CODE AND COUNTRY Civic Hackers in Contemporary Russia
87 - Part II OUTWARD-LOOKING ENCLAVES
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Chapter four AT THE PERIPHERY OF THE EMPIRE Recycling Japanese Cars into Vladivostok’s IT Community
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Chapter five KAZAN CONNECTED “IT-ing Up” a Province
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Chapter six HACKERSPACES AND TECHNOPARKS IN MOSCOW
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Chapter seven SIBERIAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
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Chapter eight E-ESTONIA REPROGRAMMED Nation Branding and Children Coding
213 - Part III INTERLUDE Russian Maps
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Chapter nine POST-SOVIET ECOSYSTEMS OF IT
231 - Part IV BRIDGES AND MISMATCHES
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Chapter ten MIGRATING STEP BY STEP Russian Computer Scientists in the UK
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Chapter eleven BRAIN DRAIN AND BOSTON’S “UPPER-MIDDLE TECH”
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Chapter twelve JEWS IN RUSSIA AND RUSSIANS IN ISRAEL
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Chapter thirteen RUSSIAN PROGRAMMERS IN FINLAND: SELF-PRESENTATION IN MIGRATION NARRATIVE
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Contributors
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Index
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May 3, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781478093220
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384
eBook ISBN:
9781478093220
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