Abstract
Our central interest in this essay is to consider the role of the database as a technology of governance and the scramble of power as it relates to a capacity to model the world and exert influence upon it. We argue Software as a Service is more than a new vogue term of the IT industry, constituting a longer temporal horizon and more complex rearrangement of relations between data and labor to which the database and its entailments remain critical.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | There Is No Software, There Are Just Services |
| Editors | Irina Kaldrack, Martina Leeker |
| Place of Publication | Germany |
| Publisher | Meson Press |
| Pages | 73-89 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783957960573 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783957960559 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- databases
- computer software
- service industries
- labor