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Semiotic machines : software in discourse
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2014
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| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Walton, Marion |
| author2 | Marsden, Gary |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6370 Semiotic machines : software in discourse Walton, Marion Marsden, Gary Burn, Andrew Computer Science Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-259). This study develops new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of software as a medium of communication. This study analyses voting software, educational software, search engines, and combat and narrative in digital games. In each case it investigates how proprietary software affords discourse, and suggests a way of characterising users’ experience of this discourse. These affordances constitute the rules of communication, or ‘rules of speaking’, ‘rules of seeing’, and ‘writing-rights’ which proprietary software makes available to users, situating them within specific power-relations in the process. 2014-08-13T19:25:43Z 2014-08-13T19:25:43Z 2008 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6370 eng application/pdf Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Computer Science Walton, Marion Semiotic machines : software in discourse |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Semiotic machines : software in discourse |
| title_full | Semiotic machines : software in discourse |
| title_fullStr | Semiotic machines : software in discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Semiotic machines : software in discourse |
| title_short | Semiotic machines : software in discourse |
| title_sort | semiotic machines software in discourse |
| topic | Computer Science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6370 |
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