A Dafoe - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
“Technological determinism” is predominantly employed as a critic's term, used to dismiss certain classes of theoretical and empirical claims. Understood more productively as …
G Coleman - Current Anthropology, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Hackers and their projects have become routine, authoritative, and public participants in our daily geopolitical goings-on. There are no obvious, much less given, explanations as to why …
SR Davies - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The rise of a “maker movement,” located in hacker and makerspaces and involving the democratization of technologies of production and support of grassroots innovation, is …
Inside the life of a hacker and cybercrime culture. Public discourse, from pop culture to political rhetoric, portrays hackers as deceptive, digital villains. But what do we actually know …
LM Tanczer - New Media & Society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
This research explores hacktivism as a new form of online political activism. It uses qualitative interviews with a gender-equal sample of 10 self-defined hacktivists to address …
F De la Cruz Paragas, TTC Lin - New Media & Society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Technological determinism (TD) has been critiqued as reductionist, ahistorical, and simplistic. This article, however, presents its complexity by showing four of its typologies …
In 2015, YouTube was the first online platform to enable the option of uploading and playing 360-degree videos on the Internet. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the …
Hacktivism is a rising phenomenon in the cyber landscape combining elements of the hacking subculture with ideologically motivated agendas inspired both by traditional …
S Kubitschko - Convergence, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The increased level of technical abstractness poses a challenge for laypersons and politicians alike to notice the political impacts specific technical developments might bring …