dear AoIR Listers, I am currently working on a syllabus for an undergraduate software studies seminar. While I have been able to find essays that perform close readings on video games and digital art pieces, I have been having more trouble with finding articles that perform similar types of close readings on commercial software (like Microsoft Word, Final Cut Pro, TurboTax, WindowsXP, etc). If anyone knows of good essays that employ semiotic, phenomenological, and/or deconstructive methodologies in the analysis of these forms of software, I would be quite appreciative. Also, I would love to know if there are particular journals that specialize in printing essays of this type. thank you very much, Jonathan Cohn PhD Candidate Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA