Title
Command Lines: Technologies of Centralization and ConformityCatalog Number
102740152Type
Moving imageDescription
Session D1: Technologies of Centralization and ConformityCommand Lines: Software, Power & Performance
March 18-19, 2017
Computer History Museum
“Programs of Control: Bureaucratic Hierarchies, Software Implementation, and Agendas of Policy and Power in the U.S. Federal Government, 1963-1983”
Andrew Meade McGee
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
“Hacking the System: Transgender Britons Confront the Ministry of Pensions, 1950-1970”
Marie Hicks
Assistant Professor of History, Lewis Department of the Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology
“Scraping Glitches: Social Media and Marginalization”
Madisson Whitman
Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, Purdue University
“Brokers, Queues, and Flows: Techniques of Financialization and Consolidation, 1985-2005
Michael Castelle
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
[Talk not recorded.]
Chaired by David Alan Grier
Associate Professor, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University
Command Lines was a conference of the Society for the History of Technology (http://www.historyoftechnology.org/)’s Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society (http://www.sigcis.org/). It was sponsored and hosted by the Computer History Museum (http://www.computerhistory.org/)’s Center for Software History (http://www.computerhistory.org/softwarehistory).
Date
2017-03-18Participants
Castelle, Michael, Speaker |
Grie, David Alan, Moderator |
Hicks, Marie, Speaker |
McGee, Andrew Meade, Speaker |
Whitman, Madisson, Speaker |