Geek and Hacker Stories
Code, Culture and Storytelling from the Technosphere
Authors: Alleyne, Brian
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Brian Alleyne is Lecturer at Goldsmiths University, UK.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Initialise (Key Ideas)
Pages 1-20
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Representing Geeks
Pages 21-46
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Platform War Stories
Pages 47-73
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Geek Political Narrative
Pages 75-93
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Notes from a Geek Autobiography
Pages 95-107
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Geek and Hacker Stories
- Book Subtitle
- Code, Culture and Storytelling from the Technosphere
- Authors
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- Brian Alleyne
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-349-95819-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-349-95819-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95818-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 112
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