the wind talks to the forest

The role of software studies is not to answer these and many other questions about our new interactive world, but rather to articulate them and offer examples of how they can be approached.

But we have to accept the fundamental variability of the actual "software performances." So rather than analyzing the code as an abstract entity, we may instead trace how it is executed, or "performed," in particular user sessions. To use the terms from linguistics, rather than thinking of the code as language, we may want to study it as speech.

even if a program is relatively short and a cultural critic understands exactly what the program is supposed to do, this understanding of the logical structure of the program can't be translated into envisioning the actual user experience.

The complexity and distributed architecture of contemporary large-scale software poses a serious challenge to the idea of "reading the code."

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