Chun reading

Chun's argument

100

This scholar argues software shapes power, knowledge, and everyday life

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

200

This illusion is created by code as users believe instructions directly produce results

Illusion of control

300

What does Chun argue code does not do, despite common belief?

Exactly what it says

400

Chun describes software as both technical and?

Political

Code as power

100

What enforces rules automatically and shapes what users can and cannot do? 

Software

200

This posits that decisions are subject to "black box" processes, which decreases transparency in algorithms

Algorithmic governance

300

In prioritizing profit or engagement over user agency, this feature of code is said to set the "default" settings of human interaction

Invisible architecture

400

The capacity for digital protocols to bypass national borders and legal jurisdictions, creating a type of globalized, standardized law "of the platform."

Displacement of law

Labor, Gender & Power

100

What early computing term referred to the human workers doing calculations?

Computers

200

What early machine was programmed by women and represents early computing history?

ENIAC

300

Chun describes code both as a system of control and?

Creativity

400

What hierarchical structure influenced early programming?

Military command structures