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Code Work: Hacking Across the U.S./México Techno-Borderlands

Héctor Beltrán

Technology & society

Code Work: Hacking Across the U.S./México Techno-Borderlands

By Héctor Beltrán, assistant professor of anthropology

Princeton University Press · 2023

In this book, Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the coding world to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions - at home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics.

From Summer 2024 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.