Middle Tech
Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough
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"[
Middle Tech
] proves indispensable for demonstrating how the mundane but nevertheless consequential choices inside AI companies, indeed in all software companies, are made by engineers as they navigate the material and ethical stakes of what is 'good enough' and who it is good enough for in their daily work."
---Emanuel Moss,
Public Books
"[
Middle Tech
] proves indispensable for demonstrating how the mundane but nevertheless consequential choices inside AI companies, indeed in all software companies, are made by engineers as they navigate the material and ethical stakes of what is 'good enough' and who it is good enough for in their daily work."
---Emanuel Moss,
Public Books
"A most welcome addition to the sociology of work, organizations, and occupations and an important contribution to readers' understanding ofthe creation, change, and maintenance of workplace culture."
Paula Bialski
is associate professor of digital sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland. She is the author of
Becoming Intimately Mobile
and a coauthor of
Communication
.