In a conversation with Ted Byfield, he commented that Introduction to Clouds as infrastructure sounds like a place to unlearn and relearn the history of computing and how software production works. Unlearning and relearning is also a (pedagogical) approach used by Constant vzw and continues to be part of TITiPI's work. Constant used it, for example, in workshops where participants were invited designers to unlearn their practice using Adobe project, and instead relearn (or reconstruct a collective practice) using FLOSS alternatives. TITiPI uses the term also to unlearn typical hierarchical make up of institutions as well as their relationship to technology. The approach apparently has already traveled to management circles, although some of the articles suggest it comes from Alvin Toffler who was a business person and a futurist. Below are some popular references to put the concepts into their broader context.

An educational perspective (with the use of the three concepts as part of a broader cycle): https://www.educate-me.co/blog/learn-unlearn-relearn

Pedagogical/psychological use of the term: https://blog.learnlife.com/learn-unlearn-relearn

Forbes use of the term during COVID: https://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2020/06/12/learn-unlearn--relearn-what-got-you-here-wont-get-you-there/

Business of Computing

2024-04-12T14:52:46Z

Seda: unvetted references added

What do we mean by the business of computing? Not trivial. Since we are not in the business of delineating whether a business is in the computing industry or not and that category in itself is becoming very blury, here are some references that can start a lead at thinking through the concept of the business of computing.

First, we are not interested in defining the business of computing, but empirically studying actors and their practices to understand how they came to be and where they are going. We do so with an emphasis on production: what do they produce, how is the production organized and for who do they produce.

If we are going to talk about businesses, than it is also necessary to think about the corporation or the firm and how we conceptualize it. This will take longer work that could benefit from looking at Martha's thesis. I also appreciated the chapter in this thesis on the corporation which gives an overview of literature starting from Weber and Coase and all the way to feminist theory:

[https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/geography/faculty/prague Jayme Walenta], PhD Thesis
https://scholar.archive.org/work/r3namx2rr5e47apoti7iogtlsq/access/wayback/https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/download/pdf/24/1.0066891/1

More directly relevant are the following pieces:

* '''Kelly-Campbell, Development and Structure of the International Software Industry, 1950-1990, 1995'''
* '''Luanne Johnson, A View From the 1960s: How the Software Industry Began, 1998'''
* '''Campbell-Kelly and Garcia Swartz, From Mainframes to Smarphones: A history of the International Computer Industry, 2015 (albeit, it seems the emphasis is on the industry and not the "business" or the "firm")'''
References that may also be interesting but not yet vetted:

* Steinmueller, he US Software Industry: an analysis and interpretative history, 1995. https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/1350625/guid-b1d2735f-8c10-4967-8cc2-51336daa7955-ASSET1.0.pdf
* Shanling Li et al., Why Do Software Firms Fail? Capabilities, Competitive Actions, and Firm Survival in the Software Industry from 1995 to 2007, 2010. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1287/isre.1100.0281

Business of Computing

2024-04-12T14:41:36Z

Seda: Added links to articles on the history of computing that may help in understanding existing depictions and framings of the business of computing.

2023-12-20T12:49:02Z

Seda: Bullet points

In our team, we collaborate in various ways with each other in ways that may or may not fit traditional forms of collaboration. The ethics of our research collaboration is part of our research practice. This means, we continuously reflect on how to respect the people we work with including team members and others, be responsible and accountable in our research practice and in the outputs of our research.

This page aims to be a collection space for resources in helping us develop this practice. Our collaboration ethics will be reflected in our Code of Conduct (WIP) and will evolve as our research and our team changes.

These are some articles that may help shape a discussion on the topic:

- Barabas, Chelsea, Colin Doyle, Jb Rubinovitz, and Karthik Dinakar. “Studying up: Reorienting the Study of Algorithmic Fairness around Issues of Power.” In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 167–76. Barcelona Spain: ACM, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3372859.

- Chakravartty, Paula, Rachel Kuo, Victoria Grubbs, and Charlton McIlwain. “#CommunicationSoWhite.” Journal of Communication 68, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 254–66. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqy003.

- George-Walker, Linda De, Catherine H Arden, and Patrick Alan Danaher. “Towards Some Answers to the Questions of Ethics in Collaborative Research,” n.d.

- Haviland, Carol Peterson, and Joan A. Mullin, eds. Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship, and Disciplinary Cultures. Utah State University Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgn56.

- Young, Meg, Lassana Magassa, and Batya Friedman. “Toward Inclusive Tech Policy Design: A Method for Underrepresented Voices to Strengthen Tech Policy Documents.” Ethics and Information Technology 21, no. 2 (June 2019): 89–103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-019-09497-z.