There Is No Software, There Are Just Services

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Is software dead? Services like Google, Dropbox, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Social Media apps are all-pervasive in our digital media landscape. This marks the (re)emergence of the service paradigm that challenges traditional business and license models as well as modes of media creation and use. The short essays in this edited collection discuss how services shift the notion of software, the cultural technique of programming, conditions of labor as well as the ecology and politics of data and how they influence dispositifs of knowledge. Contents......Page 9 There is no Software, there are just Services: Introduction......Page 11 “The Tail on the Hardware Dog”: Historical Articulations of Computing Machinery, Software, and Services......Page 23 The Durability of Software......Page 41 From Shrink Wrap to Services: The Universal Machine and Universal Exchange......Page 59 Service Orientations: Data, Institutions, Labor......Page 75 The Cloud, the Store, and Millions of Apps......Page 93 Denials of Service......Page 105 Authors......Page 115