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01.25.10My World Performs Me: Heuristics in Second Life and Social MediaCode is not agnostic. Code is the accretion of a thousand small decisions and a few large ones. Code, because it is not agnostic, produces effects comparable to speaking another language. I 'lived in French' for a while - listening to it, speaking it, reading signs in French, menus, newspapers. At first, I thought it was me: certain sentiments, feelings or explanations seemed incredibly hard to articulate. I thought it was because I wasn't fluent enough. When I went home to my all-English town, I suddenly realized that it wasn't my proficiency that was the problem, but rather that the ...
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