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TY - CHAP
T1 - How Software Matters
T2 - Connective Tissue and Self-Driving Cars
AU - Morley, Janine
PY - 2018/7/20
Y1 - 2018/7/20
N2 - Drawing on the example of self-driving and connected cars, this chapter explores how the software that is being integrated into, and transforming, everyday objects might be conceptualised within theories of practice. It argues that although software is an especially dynamic and intangible ‘material’ it can still be accommodated within existing conceptualisations of materiality in practice theories. The automation that software enables can be positioned as part of practice complexes, even when it does not play a direct, constitutive role in any single practice. In addition, through performing varied work in connecting practices and enabling ‘feedback’ over time and space, software can be understood to form part of the connective tissue by which practice complexes hang together and change.
AB - Drawing on the example of self-driving and connected cars, this chapter explores how the software that is being integrated into, and transforming, everyday objects might be conceptualised within theories of practice. It argues that although software is an especially dynamic and intangible ‘material’ it can still be accommodated within existing conceptualisations of materiality in practice theories. The automation that software enables can be positioned as part of practice complexes, even when it does not play a direct, constitutive role in any single practice. In addition, through performing varied work in connecting practices and enabling ‘feedback’ over time and space, software can be understood to form part of the connective tissue by which practice complexes hang together and change.
KW - connected cars
KW - self-driving cars
KW - software
KW - practice theories
KW - materiality
KW - non-humans
KW - automation
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-92189-1_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-92189-1_9
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9783319921884
SP - 173
EP - 192
BT - Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans
A2 - Maller, Cecily
A2 - Strengers, Yolande
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -