From Russia with Code
Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 2019
384 pages
978-1-4780-0334-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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Mario Biagioli | Vincent Antonin Lepinay
From Russia with Code
Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times
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05/2019
Duke University Press
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Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law, Science and Technology Studies, and History at the University of California, Davis.
Vincent Lépinay is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Medialab at Sciences Po (Paris).
Vincent Lépinay is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Medialab at Sciences Po (Paris).
Content
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
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
