Add to ORKGThis article investigates the social, technical, and legal affiliations among “geeks” (hackers, lawyers, activists, and IT entrepreneurs) on the Internet. The mode of association specific to this group is that of a “recursive public sphere” constituted by a shared imaginary of the technical and legal conditions of possibility for their own association. On the basis of fieldwork conducted in the United States, Europe, and India, I argue that geeks imagine their social existence and relations as much through technical practices (hacking, networking, and code writing) as through discursive argument (rights, identities, and relations). In addition, they consider a “right to tinker” a form of free speech that takes the form of creating, implemen...
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Geeks, hackers and gamers share a common ‘geek culture’, whose members are defined and define themse...
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RefereedContents: Part I, THE INTERNET: 1. Geeks and Recursive Publics; 2. Protestant Reformers, Pol...
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In this qualitative research I analysed two on-line discussions of "computer geeks" about a possible...
Cyberspace, as a notional environment, is a reality that comes into existence only through the propr...
Hacktivists tend to be an anonymous group of individuals asynchronously distributed across widely di...
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This article argues that the Internet possesses the potential to challenge corporate and Statist dom...
In the mid-1990s, as the Internet and the World Wide Web went public, a utopian near-consensus about...
The proliferation of new communication technologies (NCT\u27s) may extend, revise, or subvert tradit...
This dissertation is an exploration of alternative visions of social organization beyond the horizon...
Among legal scholars of technology, it has become commonplace to acknowledge that the design of netw...
Geeks, hackers and gamers share a common ‘geek culture’, whose members are defined and define themse...
Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new soci...
In this dissertation I examine the alterglobalization of computer expertise with a focus on the crea...
This article analyzes the transformation in our conception of hacking over the past few decades to t...
RefereedContents: Part I, THE INTERNET: 1. Geeks and Recursive Publics; 2. Protestant Reformers, Pol...
In Free Expression in the Age of the Internet, Jeremy Lipschultz investigates the Internet and its p...
In this qualitative research I analysed two on-line discussions of "computer geeks" about a possible...
Cyberspace, as a notional environment, is a reality that comes into existence only through the propr...
Hacktivists tend to be an anonymous group of individuals asynchronously distributed across widely di...
Our paper critically addresses the involvement and the role of civil society entities in new partici...
This article argues that the Internet possesses the potential to challenge corporate and Statist dom...
In the mid-1990s, as the Internet and the World Wide Web went public, a utopian near-consensus about...
The proliferation of new communication technologies (NCT\u27s) may extend, revise, or subvert tradit...