{"product_id":"9780691257167","title":"Middle tech","description":"\u003cp\u003eContrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply 'good enough'. In this book, Paula Bialski offers an ethnographic study of software developers at a non-flashy, non-start-up corporate tech company. Their stories reveal why software isn't perfect and how developers communicate, care, and compromise to make software work - or at least work until the next update. Exploring the culture of good enoughness at a technology firm she calls 'MiddleTech', Bialski shows how doing good-enough work is a collectively negotiated resistance to the organizational ideology found in corporate software settings.The truth, Bialski reminds us, is that technology breaks due to human-related issues: staff cutbacks cause media platforms to crash, in-car GPS systems cause catastrophic incidents, and chatbots can be weird.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paula \/ Bialski","offer_id":48561161437498,"sku":"9780691257167","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780691257167.jpg?v=1715691026","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9780691257167","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}