Geek and Hacker Stories
Code, Culture and Storytelling from the Technosphere
Geeks, hackers and gamers share a common 'geek culture', whose members are defined and define themselves mainly in terms of technology and rationality. The members of geek culture produce and circulate stories to express who they are and to explain and justify what they do. Geek storytelling draws on plots and themes from the wider social and cultural context in which geeks live. The author surveys many stories of heated exchanges and techno-tribal conflicts that date back to the earliest days of personal computing, which construct the self and the enemy, and express and debate a range of political positions.Geek and Hacker Stories will be of…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-349-95819-1
- EAN: 9781349958191
- Produktnummer: 29278543
- Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'349 KB
Über den Autor
Brian Alleyne is Lecturer at Goldsmiths University, UK.
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