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From Russia with Code Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times

Biagioli Mario Lépinay, Vincent Antonin
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781478002994
Publisert
2019-05-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
499 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Redaktør
Biagioli Mario
Lépinay, Vincent Antonin

Biographical note

Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law, Science and Technology Studies, and History at the University of California, Davis.

Vincent Lépinay is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Medialab at Sciences Po (Paris).

From Russia with Code Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times

Biagioli Mario Lépinay, Vincent Antonin
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
Biagioli Mario Lépinay, Vincent Antonin
Heftet / 2019 / Engelsk
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“The most striking achievement of this in so many ways outstanding book rests in its ethnographic accounts of the RCS [Russian Computer Scientists] as a new type of power-knowledge intellectual…. The book is easy on technical language and should be accessible to a wide readership beyond Russian studies.”

- Dušan I. Bjelic, Slavic Review

“<i>From Russia with Code</i>...is both timely and unique.... Biagioli and Lépinay’s volume demonstrates that IT professionals both in Russia and abroad have the potential to disrupt the Russian state’s current conception of sovereignty...and to redefine the relationship between the state, its citizens, and the international community.”

- Alexandra V. Orlova, Surveillance & Society

“This book is a valuable read for those with an interest in computer programming and high-tech cultures outside the United States, in post-Soviet ethnography, and in the elusive myth of the Russian programmer.”

- Adam Kriesberg, Information & Culture

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“<i>From Russia with Code </i>offers a rich and insightful view into the Russian IT sector and brings welcome scholarly attention to a population that has been overrepresented in popular journalism, but less well attended to in scholarship.... This accessibly written, engaging, and insightful volume will be of interest to broad audiences.”

- Julie Hemment, Anthropos

“This is a superb collection of articles on post-Soviet IT by highly accomplished scholars.”

- Barbara Walker, Technology and Culture

“<i>From Russia with Code </i>appears as essential reading for those interested in STS, cultural history, transnational migrations, and the sociology, history, and anthropology of Russian-speaking information science and information technology. . . . I am confident that the complex, grounded realities of <i>From Russia with Code </i>take the first necessary step on a path toward understanding how Russian-speakers coded the world.”

- Benjamin Peters, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review

While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews, the contributors to From Russia with Code trace the practices, education, careers, networks, migrations, and lives of Russian IT professionals at home and abroad, showing how they function as key figures in the tense political and ideological environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia. Among other topics, they analyze coders' creation of both transnational communities and local networks of political activists; Moscow's use of IT funding to control peripheral regions; brain drain and the experiences of coders living abroad in the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and Finland; and the possible meanings of Russian computing systems in a heterogeneous nation and industry. Highlighting the centrality of computer scientists to post-Soviet economic mobilization in Russia, the contributors offer new insights into the difficulties through which a new entrepreneurial culture emerges in a rapidly changing world. Contributors. Irina Antoschyuk, Mario Biagioli, Ksenia Ermoshina, Marina Fedorova, Andrey Indukaev, Alina Kontareva, Diana Kurkovsky, Vincent Lépinay, Alexandra Masalskaya, Daria Savchenko, Liubava Shatokhina, Alexandra Simonova, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Zinaida Vasilyeva, Dimitrii Zhikharevich
Les mer
The contributors to From Russia with Code examine Russian computer scientists, programmers, and hackers in and outside of Russia within the context of new international labor markets and the economic, technological, and political changes in post-Soviet Russia.
Les mer
List of Abbreviations  vii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: Russian Economies of Code / Mario Biagioli and Vincent Lépinay  1 I. Coding Collectives 1. Before the Collapse: Programming Cultures in the Soviet Union / Ksenia Tatarchenko  39 2. From Lurker to Ninja: Creating an IT Community at Yandex / Marina Fedorova  59 3. For Code and Country: Civic Hackers in Contemporary Russia / Ksenia Ermoshina  87 II. Outward-Looking Enclaves 4. At the Periphery of the Empire: Recycling Japanese Cars into Vladivostok's IT Communuity / Alexandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva  113 5. Kazan Connected: "IT-ing Up" a Province / Alina Kontareva  145 6. Hackerspaces and Technoparks in Moscow / Aleksandra Simonova  167 7. Siberian Software Developers / Andrey Inkukaev  195 8. E-Estonia Reprogrammed: Nation Branding and Children Coding / Daria Savchenko  213 III. Interlude: Russian Maps 9. Post-Soviet Ecosystems of IT / Dmitrii Zhikharevich  231 IV. Bridges and Mismatches 10. Migrating Step by Step: Russian Computer Specialists in the UK / Irina Antoschyuk  271 11. Brain Drain and Boston's "Upper-Middle Tech" / Diana Kurkovsky West  297 12. Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel / Marina Fedorova  319 13. Russian Programmers in Finland: Self-Presentation in Migration Narratives / Lyubava Shatokhina  347 Contributors  365 Index  369
Les mer
“From Russia with Code is a deeply informative book about the diaspora of talented Russian computer scientists who now are working in other countries: the United States, Israel, Germany, and elsewhere. It reveals the interaction between Russian computer culture and that of other countries. But it is much more than that: it tells us that computer science is not a single thing, but a skill that blossoms differently in different environments.”
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“The most striking achievement of this in so many ways outstanding book rests in its ethnographic accounts of the RCS [Russian Computer Scientists] as a new type of power-knowledge intellectual…. The book is easy on technical language and should be accessible to a wide readership beyond Russian studies.”

- Dušan I. Bjelic, Slavic Review

“<i>From Russia with Code</i>...is both timely and unique.... Biagioli and Lépinay’s volume demonstrates that IT professionals both in Russia and abroad have the potential to disrupt the Russian state’s current conception of sovereignty...and to redefine the relationship between the state, its citizens, and the international community.”

- Alexandra V. Orlova, Surveillance & Society

“This book is a valuable read for those with an interest in computer programming and high-tech cultures outside the United States, in post-Soviet ethnography, and in the elusive myth of the Russian programmer.”

- Adam Kriesberg, Information & Culture

Se alle

“<i>From Russia with Code </i>offers a rich and insightful view into the Russian IT sector and brings welcome scholarly attention to a population that has been overrepresented in popular journalism, but less well attended to in scholarship.... This accessibly written, engaging, and insightful volume will be of interest to broad audiences.”

- Julie Hemment, Anthropos

“This is a superb collection of articles on post-Soviet IT by highly accomplished scholars.”

- Barbara Walker, Technology and Culture

“<i>From Russia with Code </i>appears as essential reading for those interested in STS, cultural history, transnational migrations, and the sociology, history, and anthropology of Russian-speaking information science and information technology. . . . I am confident that the complex, grounded realities of <i>From Russia with Code </i>take the first necessary step on a path toward understanding how Russian-speakers coded the world.”

- Benjamin Peters, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review

While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews, the contributors to From Russia with Code trace the practices, education, careers, networks, migrations, and lives of Russian IT professionals at home and abroad, showing how they function as key figures in the tense political and ideological environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia. Among other topics, they analyze coders' creation of both transnational communities and local networks of political activists; Moscow's use of IT funding to control peripheral regions; brain drain and the experiences of coders living abroad in the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and Finland; and the possible meanings of Russian computing systems in a heterogeneous nation and industry. Highlighting the centrality of computer scientists to post-Soviet economic mobilization in Russia, the contributors offer new insights into the difficulties through which a new entrepreneurial culture emerges in a rapidly changing world. Contributors. Irina Antoschyuk, Mario Biagioli, Ksenia Ermoshina, Marina Fedorova, Andrey Indukaev, Alina Kontareva, Diana Kurkovsky, Vincent Lépinay, Alexandra Masalskaya, Daria Savchenko, Liubava Shatokhina, Alexandra Simonova, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Zinaida Vasilyeva, Dimitrii Zhikharevich
Les mer
The contributors to From Russia with Code examine Russian computer scientists, programmers, and hackers in and outside of Russia within the context of new international labor markets and the economic, technological, and political changes in post-Soviet Russia.
Les mer
List of Abbreviations  vii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction: Russian Economies of Code / Mario Biagioli and Vincent Lépinay  1 I. Coding Collectives 1. Before the Collapse: Programming Cultures in the Soviet Union / Ksenia Tatarchenko  39 2. From Lurker to Ninja: Creating an IT Community at Yandex / Marina Fedorova  59 3. For Code and Country: Civic Hackers in Contemporary Russia / Ksenia Ermoshina  87 II. Outward-Looking Enclaves 4. At the Periphery of the Empire: Recycling Japanese Cars into Vladivostok's IT Communuity / Alexandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva  113 5. Kazan Connected: "IT-ing Up" a Province / Alina Kontareva  145 6. Hackerspaces and Technoparks in Moscow / Aleksandra Simonova  167 7. Siberian Software Developers / Andrey Inkukaev  195 8. E-Estonia Reprogrammed: Nation Branding and Children Coding / Daria Savchenko  213 III. Interlude: Russian Maps 9. Post-Soviet Ecosystems of IT / Dmitrii Zhikharevich  231 IV. Bridges and Mismatches 10. Migrating Step by Step: Russian Computer Specialists in the UK / Irina Antoschyuk  271 11. Brain Drain and Boston's "Upper-Middle Tech" / Diana Kurkovsky West  297 12. Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel / Marina Fedorova  319 13. Russian Programmers in Finland: Self-Presentation in Migration Narratives / Lyubava Shatokhina  347 Contributors  365 Index  369
Les mer
“From Russia with Code is a deeply informative book about the diaspora of talented Russian computer scientists who now are working in other countries: the United States, Israel, Germany, and elsewhere. It reveals the interaction between Russian computer culture and that of other countries. But it is much more than that: it tells us that computer science is not a single thing, but a skill that blossoms differently in different environments.”
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478002994
Publisert
2019-05-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
499 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Redaktør
Biagioli Mario
Lépinay, Vincent Antonin

Biographical note

Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law, Science and Technology Studies, and History at the University of California, Davis.

Vincent Lépinay is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Medialab at Sciences Po (Paris).

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