[Air-L] Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers

[Kishonna Gray]

Hello all! I am looking for additional references similar to Gabriella's
work here (awesome book btw).  A student is looking for information on
hacking as activism, hacking for social change, hacking for empowerment,
etc.

Any and all citations are welcome!

Thanks
Kishonna

*Kishonna L. Gray, PhD*

*Assistant Professor*

School of Justice Studies

Eastern Kentucky University

Email: kishonna.gray at eku.edu

Office: Stratton 313

Phone: 859-622-8880



*Recent scholarship on Xbox Live: *


Gray, K.L. (2013) Diffusion of Innovation Theory and Xbox Live: Examining
Minority Gamers Responses and Rate of Adoption to Changes in Xbox
Live. *Bulletin
of Science, Technology, & Society*, 32(6): 463-470.


Gray, K.L. (2012) Deviant Bodies, Stigmatized Identities, and Racist Acts:
Examining the Experiences of African-American Gamers in Xbox Live.  *New
Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, *18(4): 261-276.

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Richard Forno <rforno at infowarrior.org>wrote:

>
> Biella does great work.....ergo I'm looking forward to adding this to my
> must-read pile.....which right now is more like a "scholastic endtable"
> which is one year away from becoming am "academic-style room divider."  ;)
>
> --rick
>
>
> Geek Researcher Spends Three Years Living With Hackers
> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/coleman/
>
> When you’re starting off as an anthropologist, you aim is to explore a
> subculture your peers have yet to uncover, spending years living with the
> locals and learning their ways.
>
> That’s what Gabriella Coleman did. She went to San Francisco and lived
> with the hackers.
>
> Coleman, an anthropologist who teaches at McGill University, spent three
> years living in the Bay Area, studying the community that builds the Debian
> Linux open source operating system and other hackers — i.e., people who
> pride themselves on finding new ways to reinvent software. More recently,
> she’s been peeling away the onion that is the Anonymous movement, a group
> that hacks as a means of protest — and mischief.
>
> When she moved to San Francisco, she volunteered with the Electronic
> Frontier Foundation — she believed, correctly, that having an eff.orgaddress would make people more willing to talk to her — and started making
> the scene. She talked free software over Chinese food at the Bay Area Linux
> User Group’s monthly meetings upstairs at San Francisco’s Four Seas
> Restaurant. She marched with geeks demanding the release of Adobe eBooks
> hacker Dmitry Sklyarov. She learned the culture inside-out.
>
> Now, she’s written a book on her experiences: Coding Freedom: The Ethics
> and Aesthetics of Hacking. It’s a scholarly work of anthropology that
> examines the question: What does it mean to be a hacker?
>
> Earlier this month, she dropped by Wired’s offices to talk about the book.
> Here’s an edited transcript of the conversation:
>
> < -- >
>
> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/coleman/
>
> ---
> Just because i'm near the punchbowl doesn't mean I'm also drinking from it.
>
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-- 
*Kishonna L Gray, PhD*
Justice and Social Inquiry
School of Social Transformation
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4902
Email: klgray at asu.edu
Phone: 480-965-7085