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From Russia with Code – Programming Migrations in Post–Soviet Times

Autor Mario Biagioli, Vincent Antonin Lépinay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 2019
While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews, the contributors to From Russia with Code trace the practices, education, careers, networks, migrations, and lives of Russian IT professionals at home and abroad, showing how they function as key figures in the tense political and ideological environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia. Among other topics, they analyze coders' creation of both transnational communities and local networks of political activists; Moscow's use of IT funding to control peripheral regions; brain drain and the experiences of coders living abroad in the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and Finland; and the possible meanings of Russian computing systems in a heterogeneous nation and industry. Highlighting the centrality of computer scientists to post-Soviet economic mobilization in Russia, the contributors offer new insights into the difficulties through which a new entrepreneurial culture emerges in a rapidly changing world. Contributors. Irina Antoschyuk, Mario Biagioli, Ksenia Ermoshina, Marina Fedorova, Andrey Indukaev, Alina Kontareva, Diana Kurkovsky, Vincent L pinay, Alexandra Masalskaya, Daria Savchenko, Liubava Shatokhina, Alexandra Simonova, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Zinaida Vasilyeva, Dimitrii Zhikharevich
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478002994
ISBN-10: 1478002999
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

List of Abbreviations  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Russian Economies of Code / Mario Biagioli and Vincent Lépinay  1
I. Coding Collectives
1. Before the Collapse: Programming Cultures in the Soviet Union / Ksenia Tatarchenko  39
2. From Lurker to Ninja: Creating an IT Community at Yandex / Marina Fedorova  59
3. For Code and Country: Civic Hackers in Contemporary Russia / Ksenia Ermoshina  87
II. Outward-Looking Enclaves
4. At the Periphery of the Empire: Recycling Japanese Cars into Vladivostok's IT Communuity / Alexandra Masalskaya and Zinaida Vasilyeva  113
5. Kazan Connected: "IT-ing Up" a Province / Alina Kontareva  145
6. Hackerspaces and Technoparks in Moscow / Aleksandra Simonova  167
7. Siberian Software Developers / Andrey Inkukaev  195
8. E-Estonia Reprogrammed: Nation Branding and Children Coding / Daria Savchenko  213
III. Interlude: Russian Maps
9. Post-Soviet Ecosystems of IT / Dmitrii Zhikharevich  231
IV. Bridges and Mismatches
10. Migrating Step by Step: Russian Computer Specialists in the UK / Irina Antoschyuk  271
11. Brain Drain and Boston's "Upper-Middle Tech" / Diana Kurkovsky West  297
12. Jews in Russia and Russians in Israel / Marina Fedorova  319
13. Russian Programmers in Finland: Self-Presentation in Migration Narratives / Lyubava Shatokhina  347
Contributors  365
Index  369

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Descriere

The contributors to From Russia with Code examine Russian computer scientists, programmers, and hackers in and outside of Russia within the context of new international labor markets and the economic, technological, and political changes in post-Soviet Russia.