Software Studies, Revisited. A Roundtable on the Software Studies Series at MIT Press

The Software Studies series launched in 2009, under the guidance of editors Matthew Fuller, Lev Manovich, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. For over a decade, the series was dedicated to publishing the best new work that tracks how software is substantially integrated into the processes of contemporary culture and society through the scholarly modes of the humanities and social science, as well as in the software creation/research modes of computer science, the arts, and design. Important books published under the tenure of Fuller, Manovich, and Wardrip-Fruin include (among others) Nick Montfort et al.’s collaborative treatise on the single line of code, 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND); : GOTO 10;1 Benjamin Bratton’s comprehensive overview of an accidental megastructure, The Stack; and Annette Vee’s argument for a computational mentality in Coding Literacy.