I hadn't heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_studies appears to have become a thing ~2006.
Software studies is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, which studies software systems and their social and cultural effects.Noticed in http://hblog.org/2014/02/25/review-of-codespace-software-and-everyday-life/
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