Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software - and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project - reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring …
"12" Result
Sort By:
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring th…
"Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, film, television and digital media, "Nerd Ecology" is the first substantial ecocritical study of nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The…
"Scott's "Fake Geek Girls" explores the issues of gender"--.
Provides an anthropological exploration of the role that actors such as WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Edward Snowden and others play in sparking and managing new processes of political change in the digital age. Postill draws from long-term ethnographic research in Spain and Indonesia--…
Lively and wide-ranging, 'The Rise of Nerd Politics' is a anthropological exploration of the role that freedom technologists play in sparking new processes of political change in the digital age. Drawing on John Postill's anthropological fieldwork on social media and digital act…
Provides an anthropological exploration of the role that actors such as WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Edward Snowden and others play in sparking and managing new processes of political change in the digital age. Postill draws from long-term ethnographic research in Spain and Indonesia--…
An anthropology of technology, protest and politics, from Podemos to Wikileaks.