Is software political? - eviltoast
JSTOR: Access Check
www.jstor.org
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

In this paper the author highlights how both engineers and social scientists misinterpret the relationship between technology and society. In particular he attacks the narrative, widespread among engineers, that technological artifacts, such as software, have no political properties in themselves and that function or efficiency are the only drivers of technological design and implementation.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    82·
    4 months ago
    • user: “please change mention of ‘he’ to a gender-neutral term”
    • Andreas: “please keep politics out of this”

    Now to some, dare I say most, this is a perfectly reasonable position for Andreas to be in. But to others, perhaps a vocal minority at the opposite extreme… it’s everything from bigotry to borderline terrorism.

    I literally cannot roll my eyes harder right now.