The Dynamism of Expertise The Qualitative Content Analysis of the Articles of a Software Engineer Turned into Freelance Author

Abstract

My paper studies the relationship of two different professional positions in the oeuvre of David Auerbach, an American software engineer who quitted his job at Google and became a cultural critic and freelance author. I am interested in the dynamism of Auerbach’s career: though he–inspired by his literary and cultural affections–left his firstly chosen programmer vocation and became a freelance author, he, as a writer, turned back to the questions of computer science, besides the topics of humanities, and occasionally connected the two areas together. My qualitative content analysis, through two concrete examples, demonstrates how the different areas of interest mingle, confront and influence each other in Auerbach’s articles.