[SIGCIS-Members] Gabrielle Coleman’s Piece in the Atlantic

[Erik P. Rau]

Hey, everyone.

You may have heard Gabrielle Coleman (anthropologist of hackers) on PBS’s Here and Now program this morning. She summarizes here course at NYU in a recent (21.Sept) article in the Atlantic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/the-anthropology-of-hackers/63308/

The interview is here:

http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/11/30/hackers

She also has an interview on Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/7122412

She’s interested in more than hacking culture qua hackers’ meanings, but also work culture, ethics, etc. She’s fairly philosophically grounded in the existential pleasures and work environments of hacking. (“internet as playground and factory”). Sounded fairly meaty. One might ask whether hackers are representative of the internet’s denizens (the answer is no, of course), and what they can tell us about the culture of the internet more generally.

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