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From Russia With Code - Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times

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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

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