Join us on Thursday, January 30th, from 14-16 hrs (German time) for the last RUSTLab lecture of this winter term. Paula Bialski will present her work on “Good Enoughing at Middle Tech: An Ethnography of Corporate Software Culture”.
In this presentation Paula Bialski discusses her latest book Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton University Press, 2024). It is an ethnographic story of 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. After the presentation, the author discusses the book with a reviewer, and RUSTlab researchers discuss with Paula Bialski the notion of good enough in their own research work.
Paula Bialski is an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland. She is an ethnographer of digital technologies, looking at contexts of usage as well as production, and she frames her research within science and technology studies in particular.
Location: on campus (MB 4/165) and Zoom
Zoom Link
PW: RUSTlab
You will find additional resources and information on this term’s guiding theme Fabrication here on our website.