The paper considers the use of online technical discussions by software developers in Rio de Jane... more The paper considers the use of online technical discussions by software developers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, drawing on the results of a 5 month interview study. In the course of their daily work, Brazilian software developers routinely rely on online resources, which include as a key component foreign forums dedicated to technical questions. In rare cases, they actively participate in those forums; somewhat more often they "lurk." Even more often, however, forum posts are simply found while searching for a specific topic. Forums are thus experienced not as intertwining threads of conversations, but rather as a searchable collection of questions and answers free from conversational context, which is appreciated in a detached, asocial way. The paper thus looks at the use of persistent conversations by people who are not party to themnot even as lurkers. It considers some of the reasons for such nonparticipatory use, including the reasons one would presume to be universal (e.g., the ease of searching), as well as those that may be specific to members of peripheral communities. The paper contrasts the forms of engagement with foreign and local (or national) technical forums, showing how foreign conversations are construed as asocial "sources of knowledge" while local forums are seen as spaces that bring together national or local communities of developers.
This chapter contains sections titled: Practice and Place, Peculiarities, The Project, The Chapte... more This chapter contains sections titled: Practice and Place, Peculiarities, The Project, The Chapters that Follow
... DOI: 10.1080/13691180902859369 Yuri Takhteyev a * ... Considering how Pasteur's bact... more ... DOI: 10.1080/13691180902859369 Yuri Takhteyev a * ... Considering how Pasteur's bacteriology ends up being successful in stopping anthrax on farms (ie outside the narrow confines of the laboratory), Latour argues (p. 249) that Pasteur's bacteriology succeeds on the farms ...
This chapter contains sections titled: The Language of Software, It's Just More Natural, Lua:... more This chapter contains sections titled: The Language of Software, It's Just More Natural, Lua: If or Se?, The Lua Book, Kepler's Wiki, Learning English, The Speakers and the Nonspeakers, The World Language or the Gringo Language?
Revista Eletrônica de Sistemas de Informação, 2014
Embora meu livro Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City (Lugares de desenvolvi... more Embora meu livro Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City (Lugares de desenvolvimento: a prática de software em uma cidade sul americana, en tradução livre), a que se refere este ensaio, dedique muitas páginas à linguagem Lua, ele não é sobre Lua e, seguramente, não é sobre uma “síndrome” da qual o Brasil precise se livrar. O livro é sobre globalização e a posição paradoxal de algumas cidades como o Rio de Janeiro no mundo global do software. Uma parte do paradoxo é que o Rio é uma cidade como muitas outras. Não é “estranho” – é absolutamente normal. O Vale do Silício é incomum – e muito afortunado. As pessoas que trabalham no Vale do Silício não precisam fazer as escolhas difíceis de quem mora no Rio (ou em muitas outras partes). O livro analisa essas escolhas e procura mostrar que elas ajudam a manter o status quo. Contudo, não é minha intenção condenar essas escolhas. Eu provavelmente também as realizaria. Na verdade, o faço com frequência (meu próprio livro está...
We analyze two ways of thinking about ICTs in the production of space. One is what we call the “m... more We analyze two ways of thinking about ICTs in the production of space. One is what we call the “mimetic” view. This view focuses on ICTs’ ability to bring representations from one locale into another. Debates about ICTs and geography have historically been driven by this “mimetic” view and continue to be constrained by it. In contrast, we discuss what we call the “algorithmic” view of ICTs, which focuses on computational re-ordering of representations and subsequent reordering of real-world entities. Recently, scholars of ICTs, communication, and geography have increasingly drawn on examples that fall under the “algorithmic” view, yet the distinction between the two views has not been clearly articulated. This paper clarifies this distinction.
2007 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07), 2007
The paper considers the use of online technical discussions by software developers in Rio de Jane... more The paper considers the use of online technical discussions by software developers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, drawing on the results of a 5 month interview study. In the course of their daily work, Brazilian software developers routinely rely on online resources, which include as a key component foreign forums dedicated to technical questions. In rare cases, they actively participate in those forums; somewhat more often they "lurk." Even more often, however, forum posts are simply found while searching for a specific topic. Forums are thus experienced not as intertwining threads of conversations, but rather as a searchable collection of questions and answers free from conversational context, which is appreciated in a detached, asocial way. The paper thus looks at the use of persistent conversations by people who are not party to themnot even as lurkers. It considers some of the reasons for such nonparticipatory use, including the reasons one would presume to be universal (e.g., the ease of searching), as well as those that may be specific to members of peripheral communities. The paper contrasts the forms of engagement with foreign and local (or national) technical forums, showing how foreign conversations are construed as asocial "sources of knowledge" while local forums are seen as spaces that bring together national or local communities of developers.
... DOI: 10.1080/13691180902859369 Yuri Takhteyev a * ... Considering how Pasteur's bact... more ... DOI: 10.1080/13691180902859369 Yuri Takhteyev a * ... Considering how Pasteur's bacteriology ends up being successful in stopping anthrax on farms (ie outside the narrow confines of the laboratory), Latour argues (p. 249) that Pasteur's bacteriology succeeds on the farms ...
The paper considers the use of online technical discussions by software developers in Rio de Jane... more The paper considers the use of online technical discussions by software developers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, drawing on the results of a 5 month interview study. In the course of their daily work, Brazilian software developers routinely rely on online resources, which include as a key component foreign forums dedicated to technical questions. In rare cases, they actively participate in those forums; somewhat more often they "lurk." Even more often, however, forum posts are simply found while searching for a specific topic. Forums are thus experienced not as intertwining threads of conversations, but rather as a searchable collection of questions and answers free from conversational context, which is appreciated in a detached, asocial way. The paper thus looks at the use of persistent conversations by people who are not party to themnot even as lurkers. It considers some of the reasons for such nonparticipatory use, including the reasons one would presume to be universal (e.g., the ease of searching), as well as those that may be specific to members of peripheral communities. The paper contrasts the forms of engagement with foreign and local (or national) technical forums, showing how foreign conversations are construed as asocial "sources of knowledge" while local forums are seen as spaces that bring together national or local communities of developers.
This chapter contains sections titled: Practice and Place, Peculiarities, The Project, The Chapte... more This chapter contains sections titled: Practice and Place, Peculiarities, The Project, The Chapters that Follow
... DOI: 10.1080/13691180902859369 Yuri Takhteyev a * ... Considering how Pasteur's bact... more ... DOI: 10.1080/13691180902859369 Yuri Takhteyev a * ... Considering how Pasteur's bacteriology ends up being successful in stopping anthrax on farms (ie outside the narrow confines of the laboratory), Latour argues (p. 249) that Pasteur's bacteriology succeeds on the farms ...
This chapter contains sections titled: The Language of Software, It's Just More Natural, Lua:... more This chapter contains sections titled: The Language of Software, It's Just More Natural, Lua: If or Se?, The Lua Book, Kepler's Wiki, Learning English, The Speakers and the Nonspeakers, The World Language or the Gringo Language?
Revista Eletrônica de Sistemas de Informação, 2014
Embora meu livro Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City (Lugares de desenvolvi... more Embora meu livro Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City (Lugares de desenvolvimento: a prática de software em uma cidade sul americana, en tradução livre), a que se refere este ensaio, dedique muitas páginas à linguagem Lua, ele não é sobre Lua e, seguramente, não é sobre uma “síndrome” da qual o Brasil precise se livrar. O livro é sobre globalização e a posição paradoxal de algumas cidades como o Rio de Janeiro no mundo global do software. Uma parte do paradoxo é que o Rio é uma cidade como muitas outras. Não é “estranho” – é absolutamente normal. O Vale do Silício é incomum – e muito afortunado. As pessoas que trabalham no Vale do Silício não precisam fazer as escolhas difíceis de quem mora no Rio (ou em muitas outras partes). O livro analisa essas escolhas e procura mostrar que elas ajudam a manter o status quo. Contudo, não é minha intenção condenar essas escolhas. Eu provavelmente também as realizaria. Na verdade, o faço com frequência (meu próprio livro está...
We analyze two ways of thinking about ICTs in the production of space. One is what we call the “m... more We analyze two ways of thinking about ICTs in the production of space. One is what we call the “mimetic” view. This view focuses on ICTs’ ability to bring representations from one locale into another. Debates about ICTs and geography have historically been driven by this “mimetic” view and continue to be constrained by it. In contrast, we discuss what we call the “algorithmic” view of ICTs, which focuses on computational re-ordering of representations and subsequent reordering of real-world entities. Recently, scholars of ICTs, communication, and geography have increasingly drawn on examples that fall under the “algorithmic” view, yet the distinction between the two views has not been clearly articulated. This paper clarifies this distinction.
2007 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07), 2007
The paper considers the use of online technical discussions by software developers in Rio de Jane... more The paper considers the use of online technical discussions by software developers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, drawing on the results of a 5 month interview study. In the course of their daily work, Brazilian software developers routinely rely on online resources, which include as a key component foreign forums dedicated to technical questions. In rare cases, they actively participate in those forums; somewhat more often they "lurk." Even more often, however, forum posts are simply found while searching for a specific topic. Forums are thus experienced not as intertwining threads of conversations, but rather as a searchable collection of questions and answers free from conversational context, which is appreciated in a detached, asocial way. The paper thus looks at the use of persistent conversations by people who are not party to themnot even as lurkers. It considers some of the reasons for such nonparticipatory use, including the reasons one would presume to be universal (e.g., the ease of searching), as well as those that may be specific to members of peripheral communities. The paper contrasts the forms of engagement with foreign and local (or national) technical forums, showing how foreign conversations are construed as asocial "sources of knowledge" while local forums are seen as spaces that bring together national or local communities of developers.
... DOI: 10.1080/13691180902859369 Yuri Takhteyev a * ... Considering how Pasteur's bact... more ... DOI: 10.1080/13691180902859369 Yuri Takhteyev a * ... Considering how Pasteur's bacteriology ends up being successful in stopping anthrax on farms (ie outside the narrow confines of the laboratory), Latour argues (p. 249) that Pasteur's bacteriology succeeds on the farms ...
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