Making our world : the hacker and maker movements in context / edited by Jeremy Hunsinger & Andrew Schrock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hunsinger, Jeremy, editor.

Schrock, Aure, editor.

Series:

Digital formations ; vol. 120.

Digital formations ; vol. 120

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Technological innovations.

Social movements.

Internet and activism.

Hackers.

Computer security.

Hackers--Moral and ethical aspects.

Hackers--Political activity.

Open source software--Moral and ethical aspects.

Open source software.

Digital media.

Makerspaces.

Physical Description:

xii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2019]

Summary:

Making our world: the hacker and maker movements in context describes and situates the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of hacking and making. Hackers and makers are often mythologized, leading to people misunderstanding them as folk heroes for the modern age. In response, this book describes and critiques these movements from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives to help readers appreciate their worldwide scope and highly localized interpretations. Making our world is essential reading for students and scholars of technology and society, particularly those interested in social movements and DIY cultures.

Contents:

Introduction / Jeremy Hunsinger and Andrew R. Schrock

Section I: Histories introduction / Andrew R. Schrock. 1. Learning by doing : The tenuous alliance of the maker movement and education reform / T. Philip Nichols and Debora Lui ; 2. Kevin Mitnick, The New York Times, and the media's conception of the hacker / Molly R. Sauter ; 3. Making civic media in the post-Fukushima Japanese media ecology / Yasuhito Abe ; 4. Project chanology and the formation of anonymous as an activist movement / Rhea Vichot

Section II: Politics introduction / Andrew R. Schrock. 5. Conscientious hacking and the weak collective / Nathaniel Bassett ; 6. Policy hacking : opening up the code of media and communications regulation / Arne Hintz ; 7. Hacking administration : a report from Los Angeles / Morgan Currie ; 8. Why locality and presence (still) matter for political activism / Sebastian Kubitschko ; Section III: Organizing introduction. 9. Basteln, tinkering and bricolage : a cultural history of hacking / Alexander von Lünen ; 10. Women's hacking of the poison gift of free/libre/open source software / Jennifer Maher ; 11. Making space for a revolution : occupy wall street as a maker movement / Alison E. Vogelaar and Charlotte M. McKernan ; 12. The détente model of managing divergent values in the maker-sphere / Ann Light ;

Section IV: Case studies introduction. 13. Hacker agency and the Raspberry Pi : informal education and social innovation in a Belfast makerspace / Pip Shea ; 14. Hacking as a way of life : "makers" at the margins of global digital culture / Nicholas Balaisis ; 15. The paradox of maker movement in China / Xin Gu ; 16. Our community hacks : exploring Hive Toronto's open infrastructures / Karen Louise Smith

Afterword: Hackers and makers are ordinary / Andrew R. Schrock.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781433160004

1433160005

9781433160011

1433160013

OCLC:

1050142986

Publisher Number:

99993260765

40028802074