• Sarah Ciston
• Zach Mann
• Mark C. Marino
• Jeremy Douglass

• code studies
• cultural criticism
• machine learning
• race
• social justice

• predictive policing
• critical code studies
• anti-racism
• software studies

In Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Ciston, Mann, Marino, and Douglass perform a critical code studies reading of CivicScape predictive policing software, detailing the racialized codes of civic control under the cloak of inaccessible AI machinations.

• 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.

• David M. Berry

• explainability
• algorithms
• Critical Code Studies
• Software Studies
• Digital Humanities

The software explanability deficit in modern societies can be addressed in part by tracing concept formation through code structures.

• Mark C. Marino
• Jeremy Douglass

• critical code studies
• digital humanities
• hermeneutics
• game studies
• software studies
• platform studies
• media archaeology

An introduction to the field of Critical Code Studies and summary of author contributions.