"???Hctor Belt???rn examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Belt???rn shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions--at home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics. Merging ...
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"???Hctor Belt???rn examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Belt???rn shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions--at home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics. Merging ethnographic analysis with systems thinking, he draws on his eight years of research in ???Mxico and the United States--during which he participated in and observed hackathons, hacker schools, and tech entrepreneurship conferences--to unpack the conundrums faced by workers in a tech economy that stretches from villages in rural ???Mxico to Silicon Valley.Belt???rn chronicles the tension between the transformative promise of hacking--the idea that coding will reconfigure the boundaries of race, ethnicity, class, and gender--and the reality of a neoliberal capitalist economy divided and structured by the US/???Mxico border."
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