Just Code: Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT (Studies in Computing and Culture)

How code shapes power and inequality across technology, governance, and global political economies. Code-whether software routines, legal frameworks, or informal social norms-shapes the world around us in profound and often invisible ways.In Just Code, editors Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz bring together a diverse group of scholars to examine how different forms of code both structure and reinforce power dynamics across societies. From algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence to global labor practices, this collection uncovers the hidden mechanisms by which code perpetuates inequality and injustice.It explores connections among technology, governance, and socioeconomic systems to reveal how code is both a tool of control and a product of the power structures it enables.Contributors analyze topics such as platform economies, algorithmic collusion, and labor practices in the tech industry, as well as how systems of representation and communication encode biases that amplify rac