Overview
- Brings contemporary geek communities and geek culture to life with media case studies, ethnography and narrative analysis
- Opens up computer science by focusing on cultural and amateur practices of computing which counter both fantastical media coverage and the perceived hardship of serious engagement with computational systems
- Provides a contribution to narrating and understanding computing that underlies nearly all societal operations
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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 interest to students of digital social science and media studies. Both geeky and non-technical readers will find something of value in this account.
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Brian Alleyne is Lecturer at Goldsmiths University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geek and Hacker Stories
Book Subtitle: Code, Culture and Storytelling from the Technosphere
Authors: Brian Alleyne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95819-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95818-4Published: 15 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95819-1Published: 02 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 112
Topics: Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Media Sociology