@mhoye a cultural anthropology of computing is a very broad topic. I see some of the replies are on common modern software development practices, which is useful but seems pretty narrow.

I think going into the actual cultural sub-groups that have come and gone over the past ~80 years would make more sense to me. How programming was considered women's work in the US in the early days, then co-opted by men as prestige in the work went up, how the Cold War affected software licensing and sharing, the GNU reaction to that (and you gotta include a picture of "Saint IGNUcius" just for fun here), the development of other OSS groups like Apache and the creative commons once the internet became common. There should be some talk about the broader impact of these things on the rest of the world just as the rest of the world helped shape these things.

Finally the end of it could be going into various common subgroups in existence today and what practices they follow, not judging which are best.