{"product_id":"politics-recoded-isbn-9780262549455","title":"Politics Recoded","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology’s impact on society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades, tens of thousands of volunteers and employees of Code for America have taken a different path to institutional change: through designing and implementing infrastructure. In \u003ci\u003ePolitics Recoded\u003c\/i\u003e, Aure Schrock employs a robust, organizational ethnography to analyze how Code for America’s infrastructural organizing changed how politics get exercised, showing how we citizens can work directly with the government on projects to improve our collective livelihoods. Drawing from theories of organizing, social infrastructure, racialized organizations, technical cultures, and intersectionality, Schrock argues that our “post-techlash society” must no longer presume that corporate platforms or social networks can level social inequities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn underrecognized yet influential organization, Code for America emerged from a tech culture background that prioritized networks and publicity over the long, slow work of institutional change. But its evolution demonstrates how to push beyond the fundamental flaws of tech-forward organizing. This, the first history of Code for America, shows how promoting agentic citizenship and brokering in empathy let the organization influence policy at all levels of government—and demonstrates why we need to bolster institutions to ensure that everyone is justly represented and receiving the benefits. Appealing to those in political science, communication, and information studies, \u003ci\u003ePolitics Recoded\u003c\/i\u003e will empower practitioners and activists to revolutionize technological design and participate in alternative forms of civic engagement.Contents\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1   Introduction: “You have the power to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e the government”\u003cbr\u003e2   A “Bay Area” Fusion: Technologies of Infrastructural Organizing\u003cbr\u003e3   Forging Infrastructural Citizenship: Hackathons and the Civic Imagination\u003cbr\u003e4   Networking a Movement: The Rise and Fall of the Brigades\u003cbr\u003e5   Beyond “User-centered”: Intersectional Designers and Post-Techlash Politics\u003cbr\u003e6   Selling Administration: The “Narrow Play” of Service Design\u003cbr\u003e7   Conclusion: The Opportunities and Hazards of Scale\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex“\u003ci\u003ePolitics Recoded\u003c\/i\u003e is more than an organizational ethnography. Aure Schrock provides historical context for Code for America’s engagement in transforming democratic practices, illustrating how techno-tools can help reimagine traditional governmental praxis.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kishonna L. Gray, Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan; author of \u003ci\u003eIntersectional Tech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Code for America embodied a crucial moment in tech history, back when civic technologists imagined the engineering ethos would transform government. \u003ci\u003ePolitics Recoded\u003c\/i\u003e offers an insightful retelling of the hurdles and lessons that came next.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David Karpf, author of \u003ci\u003eThe MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAure Schrock is Founder and Senior Editor at the academic editing and writing coaching company Indelible Voice, and author of \u003ci\u003eCivic Tech: Making Technology Work for People\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301819633893,"sku":"NP9780262549455","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262549455.jpg?v=1767734943","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/politics-recoded-isbn-9780262549455","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}