This article takes the political engagement of hackers as a prism for examining the relations
between technological determinist thinking and collective action. The concept 'collective …

This article traces the emergence of the new social movement of hacktivism from hacking
and questions its potential as a source of technologically-mediated radical political action. It …

In recent years, designers, activists and businesspeople have started to navigate their social
worlds on the basis of concepts derived from the world of computers and new media …

The activity of hacking constitutes one of the more contested and misunderstood aspects of
network culture. Initially the word denoted a kind of obsessive commitment to creative and …

We have framed the theme of this issue as “The Democratization of Hacking and Making” to
draw attention to the relationships between action, knowledge, and power. Particularly …

This article analyzes the transformation in our conception of hacking over the past few
decades to the current point where hackers are conceived as miscreants, vandals, criminals …

The increased level of technical abstractness poses a challenge for laypersons and
politicians alike to notice the political impacts specific technical developments might bring …

Hacking provides an introduction to the community of hackers and an analysis of the
meaning of hacking in twenty-first century societies. On the one hand, hackers infect the …

It takes time to do in-depth case studies and to put reflective distance between oneself as a
writer and the subject one is writing about. Ethnographers always arrive late. This flimsy …

As global society becomes more and more dependent, politically and economically, on the
flow of information, the power of those who can disrupt and manipulate that flow also …