• Title: Computing Cultures: Knowledges and Practices (1940-1990)
• Authors: Arianna Borrelli, Helena Durnová
• Publisher: Meson Press Eg (December 22, 2025); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Hardcover/Paperback: 284 pages
• eBook: PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3957962730
• ISBN-13: 978-3957962737
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Highlighting the diverse and fragmentary nature of the so-called "digital turn", this volume offers a glimpse into the landscape of different computing cultures which emerged side by side between the 1940s and the 1990s, at times sharing some features, yet remaining essentially independent from each other.

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