Good Enoughing. Care and Compromise in Corporate Software Work

Situated between science and technology studies, software studies, and ethnographic inquiry, in this lecture, Prof. Bialski will take the audience on a journey describing neither the tech giant or the flashy startup, but the run-of-the-mill Middletech: a place where software is built to be just “good enough” to function and workers create and sustain a complex culture of good enoughness. In examining the materiality of software in shaping the organization of software work, Bialski will show how software’s technical constraints – such as bugs or legacy code – impacts daily workflows, decision-making processes, and power dynamics among software engineers.

Vortragende Person: 
Prof. Dr. Paula Bialski (Universität St. Gallen)

Moderation: 
Benjamin Schäfer

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