• Zach Whalen

• code studies
• performance
• elit
• content analysis

• poetry
• critical code studies
• digital poetry
• computational literature

This essay presents a close code reading and analysis of computational poetry published by Lillian Yvonne-Bertram in her 2019 collection, Travesty Generator.

• Annette Vee

• code studies
• cs
• users
• history
• project management
• media history
• games

• Critical Code Studies
• BASIC programming language
• programming for all
• computer games
• Dartmouth College
• sports

Annette Vee traces the historical and cultural context of FTBALL as an example of programming for all.

• John Cayley

• code studies
• reading
• sound
• linguistics

A code-critical close reading of two works by Daniel C. Howe.

• Barry Rountree
• William Condee

• code studies
• performance
• cs
• materialisms

Nonsense shows us the opportunity that nonmaterial performance creates: to decenter text from privileged position and to recenter code as a performance.

• Jason Boyd

• code studies
• literary studies
• elit

This case study aims to elaborate the value of Scarlet Portrait Parlor as a rich example of how poetry, programming, and interactive fiction can be intertwined if not blurred in a single text.

• Lai-Tze Fan

• code studies
• gender
• access
• tools
• users

This article considers the gendered design of Amazon Alexa voice-driven capabilities, or, skills, as feminized labour.

• Jon Corbett

• indigenous
• cs
• language studies
• digital
• code studies
• project report
• users

• storytelling
• Indigenous culture
• Indigenous language
• nehiyawewin
• Ancestral Code

Jon Corbett shares the challenges and solultions he's proposed coding in Nehiyawewin development environments.

• Stephen Ramsay

• cultural criticism
• code studies
• philosophy
• tools

• politics
• software
• cultural studies

If it is true that our tool-building cannot define or predict the specific political arrangements that may later arise, we should perhaps be most circumspect not when we are tempted to imagine our efforts to be neutral, but rather when we imagine our tools to be acts of resistance or outright political activism.

• Minh Hua
• Rita Raley

• code studies
• machine learning
• tools
• web

Our work draws attention to the means by which ordinary users might interact with, and even direct, the behavior of deep learning systems, and by extension works toward demystifying some of the auratic mystery of AI.

• Minh Hua
• Rita Raley

• nlp
• games
• machine learning
• collaboration
• code studies
• linguistics

Argues for an approach to the the text adventure game AI Dungeon 2 as a model for future human-AI collaborative creative practices

• Nicole Gray

• literary studies
• code studies
• materialisms
• markup
• reading

This articles examines a Walt Whitman manuscript through the lens of code.