Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America - Brossura

Schrock, Aure

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ISBN 10: 026254945X ISBN 13: 9780262549455

Casa editrice: The MIT Press, 2024

Riassunto

The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology’s impact on society.

For decades, tens of thousands of volunteers and employees of Code for America have taken a different path to institutional change: through designing and implementing infrastructure. In Politics Recoded, Aure Schrock employs a robust, organizational ethnography to analyze how Code for America’s infrastructural organizing changed how politics get exercised and shows how we citizens can work directly with the government on projects to improve our collective livelihoods. Drawing from theories of organizing, social infrastructure, racialized organizations, technical cultures, and intersectionality, Schrock argues that our “post-techlash society” must no longer presume that corporate platforms or social networks can level social inequities.

An under-recognized yet influential organization, Code for America emerged from a tech culture background that prioritized networks and publicity over the long, slow work of institutional change. But its evolution demonstrates how to push beyond the fundamental flaws of tech-forward organizing. This, the first history of Code for America, shows how promoting agentic citizenship and brokering in empathy let the organization influence policy at all levels of government—and demonstrates why we need to bolster institutions to ensure that everyone is justly represented and receiving the benefits. Appealing to those in political science, communication, and information studies, Recoding Politics will empower practitioners and activists to revolutionize technological design and participate in alternative forms of civic engagement.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Aure Schrock is Founder and Senior Editor at the academic editing and writing coaching company Indelible Voice, and author of Civic Tech: Making Technology Work for People.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 026254945X
• ISBN 13: 9780262549455
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 250
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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