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Critical Code Studies
Computer source code has become part of popular discourse. Code is read not only by programmers but by lawyers, artists, pundits, reporters, political activists, and literary scholars it is used in political debate, works of art, popular entertainment, and historical accounts. In this book, Mark Marino argues that code means more than merely what it does we must also consider what it means. We need to learn to read code critically. Marino presents a series of case studiesranging from the Climategate scandal to a hactivist art project on the US-Mexico borderas lessons in critical code reading.